[mdlug] Best Linux rig for capturing frames from analog video?

[R KANNAN]

I have had good luck with Video Capturing from an analog VHS tapes using..
Hauppauge 610 USB-Live 2 Analog Video Digitizer and Video Capture Device
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036VO2BI/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I was using it with VLC Viewer to capture frames.

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:35 PM, David McMillan <skyefire at skyefire.org>wrote:

>
>     I have a new side-project assignment from my bosses (for, you know, my
> copious amounts of spare time).  We have a high-res *analog* video camera
> (NTSC video for the composite input on a TV) left over from another
> project, and we're about to enter a serious build phase for the new
> project.  The bosses want me to connect this camera to a computer and
> capture periodic images that can be stitched together later into a
> time-lapse video of the construction.
>
>     Now, I've done time-lapse before, using images taken using a hacked
> Canon Powershot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=pbDwl8Dh1kk<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbDwl8Dh1kk>),
> but I've never done analog-video framegrabbing with Linux before. So,
> here's where I'm looking for advice:
> 1:  video capture hardware.  Has to have a Composite (not component!)
> input.  Since I'll probably have to make do with whatever computer I find
> lying about unused, needs to use USB. Frame *rate* isn't vital, but image
> quality is
> 2:  capture software:  My current thought is that I can probably use
> motion, with motion-triggered capture, to avoid taking tons of useless
> photos at night and during lunch.  But I'm wide open to advice on this.
> 3:  "Stitching":  I did that YouTube video using mencoder, but it was a
> bit crude.
>
>
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