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Pussycat:
I've just acquired an EasyCAP DC80 usb Video Capture device which works fine in WinXP (sometimes!).

Is it possible to get this device recognised by PCLos 2012.08?

If so is there any (friendly) app to do the capture?

Less importantly, is the laptop's built in (usb bus) web cam accessible - Realtek, I think, on this Toshiba L350?

Just17:
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Easycap

Read through that and post back with questions .....

depending on your actual device there is good reason to suppose it is supported by Linux.

Pussycat:
Wow! Thanks for the link.  I'll read through and report back...

Edit: lsusb indicates EasyCAP is the Somagic (SMI Grabber Device) version so there's lots of reading to do!

In the meantime and just for fun, what about accessing the built-in web cam?

Edit: lsusb suggests that web cam is Chicony Electronics Co

Just17:
It is probably seen as  /dev/video0  .....  unless there are other video devices attached ......  provided of course it is switched on!

You should be able to view it initially in VLC by opening Capture Device - V4L2 - and  /dev/video0  as the device.


When testing your video grabber that is also a good way to start .....  even if the picture is not perfect initially.


In a terminal do the following

ls /dev/vid*

I expect you to get a response like this


/dev/video0


It might be video1 or other ......  depending on the hardware.

Pussycat:
Thanks again, Just17.

The webcam does indeed appear as /dev/video0 and Vlc does find it.

Now for a lot of study and experimentation to see if the EasyCAP can be accessed (and more consistently than in Win).....

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