Re: VGA–USB adapter, Ubuntu 12.04?

[Colin Law]

On 23 February 2013 13:41, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have searched a bit but so far I only saw the opposite of what I want.
>
> I have a device with a VGA output, and what I want to do is to take
> screenshots from it, so I need to bring its video signal to Ubuntu
> somehow, making it appear in a window that I can take a screenshot
> from.

You need a video capture device.  Google for
video capture vga
and you will find them.  Does it have a Composite Video output (yellow
phono socket, at least I think the video is the yellow one)?  If so
then then there may be a greater choice of capture devices to choose
from.

On ebay if you search for
usb video capture
you will find them, but whether cheap ones are available with vga
input I don't know.

Colin

>
> At the moment, the only way to get screenshots is to use a digital
> camera and taking a picture of the screen connected to the device.
>
> I have found some stuff that has the right connctors, but it seems
> like they work the other way around, USB–VGA rather than VGA–USB.
>
> Any hints? And of course it needs to work in Ubuntu, since I don't
> have anything else.
>
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
>
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