On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Mike Schumi wrote: > Are you guys telling me that in the whole market, there isn't any > PCMCIA or CF video capture card with Linux support. Even if it doesn't > support v4l, it will still work... !? Any other idea or advice out > there? > I've been doing a little digging on the subject too as I'd like to capture video from an external source on my laptop. I couldn't find any PCMCIA ones, and searches for the IBM one you mentioned just show a Ratoc TEX-9590 card which is Japanese and discontinued. I couldn't find a supplier of the IBM card either. I've also been looking at USB solutions. The framerate is abysmal (about 8 FPS) but there seems to be a few which use a Philips chip and a OV511 chip that are well supported. Have a look here: http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/cameras.html I semi-decided on the 'LifeView CapView', but can't find their European distributor (they don't reply to my emails) and the 8 FPS isn't very appealing. The best way I can see to do it is to use the Hauppauge PVR USB device. This has the advantage of using an onboard mpeg encoder (only in the 'pvr' model) to achieve realtime framerates. The tuner isn't supported, but I believe video capture works. Here's the project: http://pvrusb.sourceforge.net/ Doesn't look like it's been updated for a while though. HTH and let us know which way you decide to do it. Cheers, Tim
