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

[Aaron Kulkis]

David McMillan wrote:
> 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.

Wow.

Just out of curiousity, why did they spend $1500 on an analog camera in the age of digital TV?

>      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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