Does this TV to USB adapter work in Linux?

steinooo · 6 Oct 2013 at 18:35

Hi all,

Asking if anyone knows on the offchance if this sort of RCA to USB adapter will work in Linux e.g. Ubuntu please?

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/USB-2-0-inte...KV/$(KGrHqR,!mIFH(6J7wRiBR49KVnDi!~~60_58.JPG

No hotlinked images. Thank you.

Ideally I would like to have a constant stream from my SCART (RCA) output to a channel in TVheadend but think that's unlikely, but I'd like to know if anyone knows if I can get anything out of it in Linux.

KIA · 6 Oct 2013 at 20:57

Connect it to the system, open a terminal and type lsusb

Let us know the output.

pete910 · 6 Oct 2013 at 21:31

Looks like an easycap type. if so then yes, but to be sure like KIA said.

steinooo · 7 Oct 2013 at 15:51

Thanks for the replies, I haven't bought it yet but some research tells me that some people manage to get it to show as /dev/video0 etc..... does that help?

I also read whilst doing some research that even if it's possible to be seen by linux, it's hard to get any video to display from it because it hasn't got drivers to manipulate the input, have you got experience of this adapter Pete?

pete910 · 7 Oct 2013 at 18:29

steinooo said:
Thanks for the replies, I haven't bought it yet but some research tells me that some people manage to get it to show as /dev/video0 etc..... does that help?

I also read whilst doing some research that even if it's possible to be seen by linux, it's hard to get any video to display from it because it hasn't got drivers to manipulate the input, have you got experience of this adapter Pete?

/dev/video0 is the default placement to access the stream.
Is were things like skype/kopete first look for a webcam .

steinooo said:
I also read whilst doing some research that even if it's possible to be seen by linux, it's hard to get any video to display from it because it hasn't got drivers to manipulate the input, have you got experience of this adapter Pete?

eh, were you seen this ? I know linux is lacking in the video editing department but there are a few.

Pitivi http://www.pitivi.org/?go=tour
kdenlive http://www.kdenlive.org/
OpenShot http://www.openshot.org/screenshots/
Blender http://www.blender.org/
Avidemux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

Pete

steinooo · 8 Oct 2013 at 11:23

I saw the skepticism on getting video out put from it here although I just found this article which makes me a little more positive as it does indeed look just like that one.

steinooo · 28 Oct 2013 at 17:24

Found the Easycap one you mentioned Pete and ordered it, will let you know the output from lsusb when it arrives. I thought about it and follow a similar train of thought to you, I don't even want it to output the video to a screen, just send it over IP to somewhere else with a hard drive to record it, or a pc with a graphics card.