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Unfortunately, I had lost the remote control to my VHS player and adjusting the tracking without it is impossible. So I got another one of these dongles at random, and this is from StarCom and presents itself as Bus 001 Device 012: ID eb1a:5051 eMPIA Technology, Inc.Īnd S-Video works! However, sound doesn’t, and googling for another two days show that this is a common problem with the “ S-Video / Composite to USB Video Capture Cable Adapter”, at least under Linux.īut audio is easy: I could just hook it up to the internal sound card, and after fiddling with alsacontrol for a few hours, I managed to get some sound out of it. And S-Video is a much better signal than composite, so that’s a bummer. (That’s S-Video input and the PAL standard.)īut the video was in black-and-white, and after googling for a few days, it turns out that this is a known problem: S-Video on the VC500 doesn’t work, at least not in Linux.
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That is, after I discovered how to switch the input, something worked: $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 -i 1 -s 5 My old VHS player (a Panasonic DMS-ES35V) has S-Video out, so I hoped that it would, like, just kinda work, and it does. This is a Diamond VC500, and it has both composite in and S-Video in, and it seems to be a popular choice. I think you can already guess where this tale is going. And I have no Firewire equipment, so I thought it might just be easier to buy something new and shiny. I have an old, old DV conversion thingie somewhere, but it’s so old that it’s a Firewire dongle. If I remember correctly, the reason I kept these was that during the 80s and 90s I recorded quite a lot of music (videos and live stuff) from the TV, and I had always thought about some day going through them, picking out the good bits and uploading them to Youtube or something. I happened unto this box:Ī nice stack of VHS tapes. I’ve been trying to tidy up the storage locker in the loft this autumn, getting rid of old junk (so that I can put more, slightly newer junk up there).