Hi,
Can anyone suggest a good video capture / compression card and software that works well with Linux? I want it to be relatively console driven, in that I don't want to put a keyboard on the machine that's doing the video in/out, but I do have ethernet running over there.
I've got a spare machine that I've plugged in over where my hi-fi kit goes, it's loaded up with MP3s and plays those fine but I'd like to record movies off cable and store them on VCD rather than the VHS tapes I'm using at the moment.
I've played with an old Buz board/box my brother gave me but with limited success -- the driver doesn't seem to want to detect the card and nobody on the mailing list for that is much help. Also it does MJPEG compression / playback whereas what I really want is VCD / SVCD i.e. MPEG-1 / 2.
Also, I would prefer it if the card did capture from composite video + separate audio input rather than being a TV tuner only type card -- since the signal is coming off cable rather than an antenna (and it's going through my video amp which is cabled for separate video / audio outputs).
There was a review of video capture cards in the last APC but no indications as to which ones would work with Linux.
-- Del
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