Quoting Ashok Yerneni <ashok@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Are there any USB based video capture devices supported under linux? > Something like the D-Link DSB-V100? I am looking for a cost effective > linux based solution for multiple video captures and am limited by the > number of PCI-slots. Several devices are supported - see http://www.linux-usb.org/ However most of them are webcams. I personally have one Webcam with video input, and I even with OEM's driver, under Win2K, it barely works. The reason - USB is too slow for any real capture, and all "compressions" that camera makers put in to fix that make the picture unwatchable, especially if you need a 30 FPS 500x700 frame. That's more bytes than the USB can transfer. To make things worse, most camera drivers on Linux do not have decompression code because it is a trade secret. Dmitri -- > Compilable but broken code is even worse than working code (Alan Cox, during a bright moment on the linux-kernel list)
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