Quick Question: AV To USB

Jovis · Wed 27 May, 2009 23.02

I'm after something to take a signal from an AV cable and put it on my computer.

Would this do the job? http://www.amazon.co.uk/CHANNELS-Digita ... 001C4WAQA/

Might seem to have an obvious answer but I'm unsure! The fact it says DVR and CCTV makes me uncertain.

steddenm · Wed 27 May, 2009 23.32

It's doubtful that that will work, but this should do...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hauppauge-WinTV ... 34&sr=1-10

As long as you have a 3.5" phono socket on your AV device and a video out (the yellow one) it will work fine on the AV setting.

Steve in Pudsey · Thu 28 May, 2009 07.48

Have Hauppague improved their bloody awful software in recent years? I used to have one of their PCI capture cards and wasn't impressed.

Nick Harvey · Thu 28 May, 2009 11.18

I had problems with one of those EasyCAP beasties.

The yellow socket on them, apparantly, expects composite video, blanking and sync.

I'm told that my old Burle CCTV camera only outputs the composite video and not the blanking or the sync, so the EasyCAP doesn't want to know.

At least, that was what I was told by the man who said he knew. Does that make any sense to any of you video techies out there?

You never know, we might solve two problems in one thread here.

Steve in Pudsey · Thu 28 May, 2009 21.03

Nick Harvey wrote:I'm told that my old Burle CCTV camera only outputs the composite video and not the blanking or the sync, so the EasyCAP doesn't want to know.

Quick fix might be to route it through an otherwise redundant video recorder. If you can get hold of one with a Time Base Corrector in it (I know Panasonic had such a VHS model which was sold for enthusiast/semi-pro camcorder users to edit with) so much the better.