
Is that it is fairly picky about using devices through the v4l2 subsystem.Ĭan you open a console, type "ls /dev" and check your listings for devices named /video# where # is a number. Hi andlinux, what I have found with vlc 0.9.9 9 the version I am using, later builds may differ, Now I'm trying to make it work on my ubuntu laptop. I have this device a week now and I used it on a win7 system to record old vhs tapes. home/xxxxxxxx/easycap/easycap_dc60.0.7/src/easycap_ioctl.c:1824: warning: the frame size of 1060 bytes is larger than 1024 ideas? I'm on ubuntu 9.10 32bit.Īlso could you confirm that you can use s-video in using this method, thanks! home/xxxxxxx/easycap/easycap_dc60.0.7/src/easycap_ioctl.c: In function ‘easycap_ioctl’: I get to step 3, but when it is installing I get this. Also the garbled green image, you may get, appears to be related to a) using adapter on less than USB2.0 b) format negotiation error.Thanks for this, but I have a problem on the install. But I want to record it and I have no idea how I must do that ?

Then I have a picture and there's no delay. I have a picture now but it has a big delay on it. (see image)ĮDIT: I just used the mplayer command that's standing in the readme file and executed that as su. So I did that and know I have no error message in VLC but I have no image. My first try with VLC gave an error so I searched further and saw that you did: I have a cctv camera hooked up on this device. Also the garbled green image, you may get, appears to be related to a) using adapter on less than USB2.0 b) format negotiation error.I have this device a week now and I used it on a win7 system to record old vhs tapes. Works great! Thanks to Mike and BFC ex sourceforge. Also the garbled green image, you may get, appears to be related to a) using adapter on less than USB2.0 b) format negotiation error. Presumably the VIA is only in the 4 channel model? But still carries the ID 05e1:0408 via LSusb. The Easy cap DC60 is the S-video + CVBS + Audio L & R with A Syntek stk1160 Chipset and no VIA chipset.

Pick your appropriate media player, I had problems with sound, you may not, but opened capture device using vlc and vl42 device /dev/easycap0. This is as I used VLC which can't be run as rootĨ. The latest module is patched for NTSC and PAL,ħ. Check /dev/ directory not for video0 but as per instructions, easycap0 and easysnd0. Script should build easycap.ko, load it, and do a depmod to rebuild modules list.Ħ. sudo or su root in shell, type sh install.sh (So, replaced //easycapdir//src/makefile KERNELDIR line with "KERNELDIR ?= /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build"ģ.

Stk1160 easycap driver#
In this case copied the appropriate command from astroeasycap driver makefile (Sure its a cheat, but works) Extract Tarball, read instructions, modified the makefile for correct kernel header location.
Stk1160 easycap download#
Download latest Easycap tarball from sourceforge.Ģ. Steps I had to do to get an easycap DC60 working under Fedora Core 9 (Sulfur)ġ.
