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EasyCAP USB Video/Audio capture
For getting realtime video (and audio) from old equipment (think game consoles, VHS players, Video8 camcoders etc.) TAMI got the EasyCAP:
Features
- Video capture up to 720×480 at 30 fps for NTSC and 720×576 at 25 fps for PAL
- Composite RCA input
- S-Video input
- Stereo sound RCA input
- Standard UVC for video, UAC for audio, no special drivers or software required
Identification
“AV TO USB2.0 (534d:0021)”, manufacturer “MACROSILICON”
GNU/Linux usage instructions with mpv
- Get videoX device number by running
grep "AV TO USB" /sys/class/video4linux/*/name, the first match corresponds to the composite input - To capture the sound you can run
arecord -Dplughw:MS210x -c2 -r48000 -f S16_LE | aplay - - For video run
mpv --demuxer-lavf-o=video_size=720x480,input_format=mjpeg --profile=low-latency --untimed --demuxer-lavf-o-add=fflags=+nobuffer av://v4l2:/dev/videoX
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