Today I was playing with a Hauppauge ImpactVCB (model 558) video capture card, it’s a very standard Conexant 878A-based card that’s using the bttv driver. As soon as you plug it in your Fedora box, it can be accessed via /dev/video0 by numerous applications including Tvtime and VLC. As you can see on the picture below, it has 3 yellow RCA connectors.
I ran into a big problem: I can use the first (channel 1) and second (channel 4) RCA input, but the third doesn’t seem to be recognized…I tried every channel number from 0 to 8 and nada, that’s probably a driver problem but sadly I have no clue how to resolve this (the card seems to be detected just fine by looking at the dmesg output).
Tomorrow, I’m going to get the 188 model with 4 Composite inputs…I hope this one will work better. Anyway, I’m also looking at the Linux Video LMLBT44 card with 4 Conexant 878 chips, does anybody have a good experience with any other 4 channels capture cards on Fedora?
More news tomorrow…