Long Shot: Dazzle "Video Creator"

John Ruschmeyer jruschme at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 12:55:48 UTC 2005


Sean Miller wrote:

> A few years ago I bought a Windows ME compatible USB video capture 
> device called a "Dazzle Video Creator 50" aka. model DVC-50.
>
> Very simple thing... one phono "video in" plus digital video in... use 
> in conjunction with sound cable to input sound and vision etc. etc. etc.
>
> Now wondering if I could use this thing in conjunction with a VCR (for 
> the tuner, as much as anything) to turn my Laptop into a virtual TV...
>
> Anybody ever got one of these beasts to work with Ubuntu (or any Linux) ?
>
> I know it's a long shot... but I thought I'd ask just in case.

IIRC, the Dazzle is a Usbvision-based device. If so, check out 
http://usbvision.sourceforge.net

Make sure you get the latest code from the usbvision CVS and install the 
appropriate "linux-headers" package for your kernel.

<<<john>>>




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