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I started looking around and there is a slew of stuff, mostly trash I assume. Anybody have any experience or recommendations?

I started looking around and there is a slew of stuff, mostly trash I assume. Anybody have any experience or recommendations?

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I used to have one called eyeTV it was made by hauppage and it worked pretty well for just being a USB stick input lag was minimal

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As said, Hauppage is pretty much that gold standard for user level capture devices. If you can find out what chip it uses, you can normally find a chinese clone for less than half the price (just buy 2!). Or just buy the 1 that will work for sure. Good luck!

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I will research what encoder chip the Hauppage uses. That was actually one of the ones I was looking at. Also need to check to see if there is a kernel module for Linux.

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Second reply! I actually found it! I have 2 an actual branded eyeTV and just a Hauppage one model number is the same and if memory serves it uses the same driver.

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Looks like they only support NTSC, at a first glance. I didn't even think about the whole analog TV factor, most of the stuff I want to record from is PAL. Will dig into the tech specs some more, they might just negate the fact that they also do PAL.

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pretty sure it does PAL

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They do. I found some technical specs that say they do 50 and 60 hertz. They just don't come out and say the specific video standards anywhere in the consumer tech specs.