On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:27:23AM +1300, Paul M wrote: > I need a video capture card for a research project, and would welcome > any recomendations. > > I need about 4 inputs, and would prefer a well designed device that > simply does it's core task well. > > I grabbed this list of cards from the bktr man page, if anybody has any > comments - for or against, or additions to this list, I'd be very > gratefull. > Most of these seem quite old, and are pretty much geared towards TV. I'm > not interested in TV. > Also most have a single video input - I could use a switcher, but I dont > want to unless I have to.
you have to. the kernel only allows one bktr. some cards have e.g. tuner, s-video and RCA inputs, but you can only capture one input at a time. otoh, you might be able to find something that works with uvideo(4), but that's just a guess. -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
