[LAU] Video capture

Bob van der Poel bob at mellowood.ca
Fri May 17 16:11:19 UTC 2013


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Neil C Smith
<neilcsmith.net at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I bought three of these recently for a project -
> http://www.camsecure.co.uk/Camsecure_usb_video.html  We were using two
> at a time, and they worked great with Ubuntu 12.04.  They use a lot of
> USB bandwidth though - needs a bus to itself really.  Even trying to
> copy to a flash drive at the same time stopped the stream.  The other
> issue is the amount of stuff that uses the EasyCap or EZCap name -
> worth finding a distributor who advertises Linux compatibility like
> this if you can.

Yes. Thank you.

I see that the link you provided is for a EasyCap device. I was
looking at these, but stopped when I read about some working and other
not working with Linux since it appears that there are a lot of
different units sold under the same name.

I'll have to do some more searching. I'm not excited about ordering
from your side of the pond :)

Best,

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