Matthew R. Lee <gentoo <at> matthewlee.org> writes: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:37, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On 05 April 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > I've been rumaging around on the internet for the last few hours, but I'm > > > still confused ( a regular condition!) > > > Here's my problem. I have a video camera (ken-a-vision, 7000 series) > > > which I can attached to my microscope which outputs a standard analog > > > signal. I want to capture this signal on my laptop and edit the video. > > > What I need is a basic external video capture card that will work with > > > linux. Any suggestions. Sound and colour are irrelevant as the 'stars' > > > of the videos are both dead and transparent > > > > Does the camera generate a "normal" TV signal (PAL, SECAM, NTSC,...)? If > > so, the WinTV-PVR150 will work.
Most likely it has a standard 'RCA' style connector, which should just connect up to the (yellow) rca connextor on your tv. Try that to see if you get an image. I do not know if Chile uses ntsc/pal/secam as it's standard, but for for traditional tv monitors are usually one of those three. > I assume so, the manual doesn't explicitly say so, but it says just connect > it > to a video recorder or tv and "away you go" give it a whirl and let us know. > A quick google and check of my usual computer suppliers here in Chile doesn't > bring up that card. Does it belong to a generic type? Will the average > TVtuner type card work along with video4linux ( I guess)? The last time I purchased a plain old video (ntsc/pal) input card, I just looked under '/usr/src/linux' until I found the dir with all of the video stuffage...."media" or "video" are keyword, I think. One of the files actually listed all of the cards and showed which kernel drivers covered which grouops of cards. Sorry, I do not remember more specifically, besides those sorts of things get 're_arranged' under the kernel and support for any gven card can be dropped or added, depending on the politics at kerenel.org. A quick parse reveals this dir: /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/video Get use to looking at the source code files as the comments in the various drivers are often wonderfully full of enlightenment. REMEMBER video on linux is a 'work in progress'. The bt8xx is an excellent dir to poke around in. Start with this file: /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-cards.c hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
