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I think this may be a problem with the video source rather than with the driver itself. It can arise with worn-out videotapes, for example, even when the first item mentioned in the ./README file...

I think the device name you need for vlc is


plughw:1,0

Notice particularly that for vlc you require a colon in place of the full stop used for mplayer. Works for me on Ubuntu 11.10.

Mike

The grey bars usually mean that the driver is working correctly but can't reliably lock onto the incoming analogue video signal for some reason. I don't know why this is happening - I have no...

Hi Ryan,

Your EasyCAP with USB ID 05e1:0408 ought to work successfully with the driver from SourceForge on Ubuntu 11.04, although there is a potential complication caused by a clash with the...

Yes, at the very least we need to see the output of the command


lsusb

while the EasyCAP is plugged in.

Mike

For the EasyCAP USB ID 05e1:0408, people using the recently released Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) do not need to download the SourceForge driver at all. In Ubuntu 11.10 the kernel (3.0.0-12 or...

Hi,

I'm sorry to say that I am unaware of any Linux driver for the EasyCAP with USB ID 1b71:3002.

If anybody knows of a suitable driver in existence or in development, it would be nice to hear...

When I select easycap_alsa I get a display:


This sound device does not have any controls.

and when I then hit F4 nothing at all happens. On closing alsamixer and running ./testPAL.sh I get...

Yes, a VCR should be fine - it's what I used for all the development work.

On my Debian Squeeze (which shouldn't be too different from Ubuntu 10.10 I guess), hitting F6 in alsamixer shows

...

Your log file shows that mplayer is actively processing both video and audio, but there does seem to be something strange about the audio data. I've just run a quick test with one of my own...

If /dev/video0 and /proc/asound/EasyALSA0 are both present while the EasyCAP is plugged in we can infer that the driver is almost certainly working correctly. If /dev/video0 is present and...

Hi,

Version 0.9 of the Sourceforge driver should give both video and audio on Ubuntu 10.10. For this version you don't need /dev/dsp, but when the EasyCAP is plugged in you should be able to find...

Hi @timgood,

There's been some discussion recently of the syndrome "good video for a few seconds, then grey bars" on the forum at
...

Hi,

I've had reports of problems on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) before - see posts ##179 and 185 of the present thread. But when I tested it myself, as described in my post #188, I had no difficulty in...

Hi @rizlmilk,

It's good news that at least the video is working. I've heard that some machines (particularly laptops) do have a mixture of USB1.1 and USB2.0 ports.

I think it will be difficult...

Hi,

Thanks for the diagnostics. The video part of the driver seems to be working correctly, but simply never receives any video input signal. The audio part of the driver seems inactive, but...

Driver version 0.9 (and version 0.8.5) should work fine on Ubuntu 10.04.

"ERROR: missing /proc/asound/EasyALSA0" does not imply a missing file. It means (as I suspected) that the audio part of...

Hi,

I did manage to get an EasyCAP DC60+ working on Ubuntu 10.10 about six months ago, with some difficulty - see my post #12 in the thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1642985
...

Hi @rizlmilk,

I'll need some more information in order to comment sensibly. Which version of Ubuntu are you using? Is your video source PAL or NTSC or something exotic (for example PAL-60)? ...

Yes, it's odd. I own several EasyCAPs, but my only hardware is x86 and x86_64 PCs, and I have a very limited range of input sources (PAL and NTSC video tapes, plus a PAL camera). I've never...

I'm seeing quite a few reports of this syndrome lately, but I remain clueless. Version 0.9 of the driver works fine for me on 32-bit Ubuntu 10.10 with PAL VHS tapes, and I doubt whether this is a...

Hi James,

The principal discussion thread for the EasyCAP model DC60 on Ubuntu is at:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10979221

Mike

Hi Tobe,

I have never tested the driver with S-Video because I don't own any equipment with S-Video output, but I doubt whether the adapter you mention will solve anything (I could be wrong, of...

Hi Tobe,

It's disappointing that you are getting poor video quality. If you're sure the cables and connections are good, it is always possible that the EasyCAP itself has poor internal...

Hi,

No, it's not your fault. Either there is some audio hardware on your computer which needs the module snd_usb_audio, or that module is being loaded indirectly by some action of wine or your...