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

[David McMillan]

On 5/27/2013 1:06 PM, Michael Mikowski wrote:
> 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.

     Unfortunately, my employer's accountants are holding the purse 
strings for this little project, and my time is considered "free", or at 
least sunk, since I'm already there working on other things. There's 
also a certain political element involved; after spending $1500 for this 
camera and using it *once,* they want to see some better ROI.
     Bottom line:  I don't get to make that decision.  I've been handed 
these parts (except for the framegrabber) and told "make it work."  I'm 
*stuck* with this camera.  And, frankly, if it's going to take 20hrs 
just to get an analog framegrabbing device working under Linux, I might 
as well just stick to Windows.

> 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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