Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:49:40 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 14:40 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: I am unclear what you mean here. what is a Analog to Digital S-VHS converter. I suspect it has RCA analog video in, but what comes out? is it DV (like a DV camera format)? If so I suspect you will ned up with a DV format file on your computer, not sure if you can see that live but it might in kino. emerge kino and try it. The Converter has an Analog IN input (RCA-type A/V jack) and output is S-VHS Video Out / Coaxial S/PDIF out / Toslink out So I'm not sure I'll be able to take advantage of it, I think I need RCA to DV converter (with FireWire port) do you mean s-video rather than s-vhs? s-video is still an analog signal. anyway its not gonna do what we want. analog to dv is an expensive device, but some digital video cameras have an analog rca input and you can convert old analog stuff to dv by passing it through the camera. I am not sure if you have to record it on to digital video tape first and then play it out over the firewore port, or whther you can simply pass it through. A simple PCI framegrabber will do what you want, but you specified USB or firewire, so are we dealing with a laptop? If you need a USB device i pointed out one that will work in my first post, but thats not to say other usb devices won't work. The other option is a webcam device on top of the microscope. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:05:01 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: analog to dv is an expensive device, but some digital video cameras have an analog rca input and you can convert old analog stuff to dv by passing it through the camera. I am not sure if you have to record it on to digital video tape first and then play it out over the firewore port, or whther you can simply pass it through. My Canon camcorder will pass it through. I've hooked a VCR up to it like this to transfer video tapes to Kino. -- Neil Bothwick KPLA Klingon Radio : All glory, all the time! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 01:05 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:49:40 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 14:40 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: I am unclear what you mean here. what is a Analog to Digital S-VHS converter. I suspect it has RCA analog video in, but what comes out? is it DV (like a DV camera format)? If so I suspect you will ned up with a DV format file on your computer, not sure if you can see that live but it might in kino. emerge kino and try it. The Converter has an Analog IN input (RCA-type A/V jack) and output is S-VHS Video Out / Coaxial S/PDIF out / Toslink out So I'm not sure I'll be able to take advantage of it, I think I need RCA to DV converter (with FireWire port) do you mean s-video rather than s-vhs? s-video is still an analog signal. anyway its not gonna do what we want. You are right, I just converts composite video to S-Video; so it will not be much of use to me. analog to dv is an expensive device, but some digital video cameras have an analog rca input and you can convert old analog stuff to dv by passing it through the camera. I am not sure if you have to record it on to digital video tape first and then play it out over the firewore port, or whther you can simply pass it through. Good idea I'll try to see if it works. I've installed the ieee1394 card and tried it with Digial Camera and kino; it works perfectly. My Digital Camera has an AV port so I'll try to connect the it and use it as a player (dubbing), but as you said I'll have to test if it goes through or I need to record it first, I'll try this sometime this evening. A simple PCI framegrabber will do what you want, but you specified USB or firewire, so are we dealing with a laptop? If you need a USB device i pointed out one that will work in my first post, but thats not to say other usb devices won't work. The 400x Microscope (fiberscope) I have connects to a standard TV and the picture is black and white, but I would like to find the simplest solution to connect it to a PC (and Laptop eventually) and take a picture. The simplex solution is the best for me so I was looking for USB port since both Laptop and PC have them. If I go with PCI card (be it ieee1394 or any framegrabber) I can only use it with PC. QUESTION regarding ieee1394: When I installed the ieee1394 card, it has two 6-pin ports and one 4-pin port. I have connected the Digital Camera to one of the 6-pin ports and I couldn't make it to work with kino, so I try the other port and it worked. I was under impression that ieee1394 cards would work the same as USB-ports; regardless which port I plug my device into it will just work, not so with ieee1394 cards. How do I control which port I need to plug the device into and how are they numbered? In kino under settings there is IEEE1394 tab and has an option raw1394 interface option that is set to 0 I've tried setting it to 1 but it didn't work. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:40 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:22:00 -0700 Joseph wrote: Are there any USB type TV / Video capture devices that works with Linux? -- #Joseph From the mythtv docs: USB Capture Devices. The Plextor ConvertX PVR devices are supported through Linux drivers available from http://www.plextor.com/english/support/LinuxSDK.htm. MythTV uses the Plextor to capture hardware encoded MPEG-4, so the host CPU requirements are low. That would do it with a bit of tweaking. All I want is to connect my Video Microscope (that has standard RCA Rack) to TV IN Card to see a live picture and be able to capture a frame. I have a ieee-1394 card and Kino application supports ieee-1394. I have as well Analog to Digital S-VHS converter. But is it possible to have a cable from S-VHS to FireWire 4 or 6pin; to connect it to ieee-1394 card? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:10:14 -0700 Joseph wrote: I have a ieee-1394 card and Kino application supports ieee-1394. I have as well Analog to Digital S-VHS converter. But is it possible to have a cable from S-VHS to FireWire 4 or 6pin; to connect it to ieee-1394 card? I am unclear what you mean here. what is a Analog to Digital S-VHS converter. I suspect it has RCA analog video in, but what comes out? is it DV (like a DV camera format)? If so I suspect you will ned up with a DV format file on your computer, not sure if you can see that live but it might in kino. emerge kino and try it. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 14:40 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: I am unclear what you mean here. what is a Analog to Digital S-VHS converter. I suspect it has RCA analog video in, but what comes out? is it DV (like a DV camera format)? If so I suspect you will ned up with a DV format file on your computer, not sure if you can see that live but it might in kino. emerge kino and try it. The Converter has an Analog IN input (RCA-type A/V jack) and output is S-VHS Video Out / Coaxial S/PDIF out / Toslink out So I'm not sure I'll be able to take advantage of it, I think I need RCA to DV converter (with FireWire port) -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
