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

[Michael Mikowski]

The camera is a sunk cost. Would you rather work 20 hours on getting this to work or spend $150 and 2 hours for a superior solution?  By limiting yourself to a solution using the sunk-cost camera, you may be costing yourself a great deal more moving forward.

I typically see accountants make this kind of mistake.

Best of luck!


David McMillan <skyefire at skyefire.org> wrote:

>On 5/25/2013 2:27 AM, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>>
>> It's FAR less cost to buy a digital USB webcam than to buy an analog 
>> -> digital converter,
>> let alone trying to find non-Windows-only software to actually process 
>> the output from it.
>
>     Sorry, didn't make it explicit:  I already *have* the camera. It's 
>a very expensive, high-end, PTZ NTSC camera.  Actually looks pretty good 
>on a 60" plasma, even at high zoom.  And I'm not going to get any budget 
>to buy another camera, especially after what we spent on this one.
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