[mythtv-users] best USB video capture (composite & audio)

[Rod Smith]

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 23:28:11 OCG Technical Support wrote:
> I have a simply video cam (mono audio, composite video) which I want to
> feed to my Linux system.  No surprise, I can find any manufacturer bragging
> about Linux support.

I've got a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 (not to be confused with the lesser 
Hauppauge WinTV-USB2). For details, check the MythTV wiki entry on the 
device, which I wrote (it's got some updates from others now, too):

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-PVR-USB2

This device produces an MPEG-2 stream, and you can use it from MythTV much 
like the popular Hauppauge PVR-150/250/350/500 series. One caveat is that not 
all features are adjustable from MythTV. Most notably, MythTV's recording 
bitrate options don't work. You can adjust the bitrate from the command line, 
but MythTV can't do it. If you want to fine-tune quality and size of 
recordings, you'll have to do it either by recording at a higher quality and 
then transcoding after the fact or by making manual adjustments between 
recordings.

-- 
Rod Smith