Video Capture in Linux

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Tuesday 07 February 2006 02:21 pm, Lawrence Tilly wrote:
> I am aware of some of the video caputre cards that people are using
> from previous research into a future MythTV setup, but what I would
> really like would be to use one of the existing USB-based video
> capture solutions such as the Pinnacle "Dazzls" device.  This writes
> out as MPEG-2 format which appears to be what the DVD authoring and
> editing tools want as well.  I'm just having a lot of trouble finding
> anything via Google that would indicate if a USB solution like this is
> workable and some of the steps.

If nothing else, I'm reasonably sure that I've seen usage of the Hauppauge 
WinTV PVR USB devices for MythTV, so that would suffice for your video 
capture needs.  A Linux-supported video capture USB device that puts out 
MPEG2.
-N