Video capture

[Net Llama!]

I'm not sure about the multi-camera setup, but i'd imagine that if you had
a single videocamera (Sony or whatever) you could use a TV capture card to
process the signal.  Do you have an explicit requirement that this must be
a USB interface?

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

>
> Anyone know of a USB device to do video capture that works with Linux? I
> thought this would be easy to find, but I seem to find nothing. Lots of
> doodads with cameras, but I have the camera. I checked the linux usb site
> and may just be missing the obvious.
>
> This is for an image processing system that has 4 S-VHS PAL cameras. We
> want to be able to capture bits during a calibration phase. Speed is not
> important. It is a few frames from each. A PCI card for each seems
> overkill.
>
> Or, anyone ever see a reasonably priced video switcher with software
> control? Me neither.
>
>

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