At 07:13 PM 9/18/02 -0400, neil t wrote: >Greetings- >Is there hardware available for linux for grabbing video >from my camcorder or vcr? I have something already but it has >to be used with .....(windoze....).......ugggg
Yes. A lot of Windows vidcap hardware works with Linux. I use the Hauppauge WinTVGo card here, with the video4linux kernel subsystem. It tunes and captures TV, and it has a composite-video input as well. Linux supports most (not quite all) of the Hauppauge and ATI vidcap cards, as well as others. I know from my reading that v4l also supports some of the cards that interface digital cameras (USB? FireWire? not sure), but I don't know the details (since I don't own that stuff). A search on "video4linux" will let you track them down. There is also plenty of applications software. Here, I use the avifile libraries with a (currently unsupported, unfortunately ... only the Debian version for it is up to date, I believe) application called "vcr" to do vidcaps. There are many to choose from ... xawtv is a well-known one, and avifile itself has capture and playback utilities. For playback, I use xine; mplayer is another popular application. This is just an outline of part of what is available. The usual searches, both on google and (probably) in the database of your distro's package list, will turn up plenty more. Hope this is enough to get you started. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
