RCA Video Input on WinXP
I'm looking for suggestions for a USB or Firewire external RCA video input device.
I would like to work with a video stream from an external (non-webcam) video device that's only 320 x 240 and has no audio. I found the cycling74.com page which lists some suggested video input methods, but it is old and all Mac-based.
Can someone suggest one that they have used successfully? I'm hoping for something
thanks!
John
hi john, by non webcam i understand you mean anlouge video camera?
the traditional best practice is to get the dfg1394
(http://www.theimagingsource.com/en/products/converters/) but before i
had one i used cheap bt878
(http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/supportedcards.html) based video
grabbers - 3 worked on a athlon1600 tower with 20% cpu utilization.
you basicly need something that will digitize the signal and pass it
to jitter, there are also cheap hobby "video to usb" ones, i have a
belkin one and it was nice, but i dont like usb2, i not for harddrives
or live data.
the list you mention is very good actually (post a link, maybe its the
wrong one) , and there is also createdigitalvideo which as review
about hardware that you can check.
http://createdigitalmotion.com/tag/hardware/
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:24 AM, search_results wrote:
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> I'm looking for suggestions for a USB or Firewire external RCA video input device.
>
> I would like to work with a video stream from an external (non-webcam) video device that's only 320 x 240 and has no audio.
>
> I found the cycling74.com page which lists some suggested video input methods, but it is old and all Mac-based.
>
> Can someone suggest one that they have used successfully? I'm hoping for something
>
> thanks!
> John
>
Thanks for your suggestions. Here is the website I mentioned that lists some Analog Video -> USB converters that work with Jitter:
The DFG1394 looks fantastic, but I think I'll have to settle for a cheaper one. I'm considering the Pinnacle Dazzle at the moment.
Any other ideas?
hi,
i use:
dont know $... but i think expensive than pinacle above...
good luck!
o
the advc line is fine hardware but it isnt very good for real time
video, as the format it encodes to is DV which offers delays and lack
of per frame compression (like mjpeg or animation does), it is also
constrained to one specific resolution. all this make it bad candidate
for anything jitter.
please consider other option
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:07 PM, oscar wrote:
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> hi,
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> i use:
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> http://desktop.thomsongrassvalley.com/products/ADVC110/index.php
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> dont know $... but i think expensive than pinacle above...
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> good luck!
> o
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