{"id":951,"date":"2014-09-21T16:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T15:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.blockos.org\/?p=951"},"modified":"2014-11-04T14:15:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T13:15:05","slug":"951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.blockos.org\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"A penguin, an USB device and a video game console walk into a bar."},"content":{"rendered":"

Some months ago I bought a cheap usb video capture device (dx.com)<\/a>. Using it with vlc under Windows is pretty straightforward. What about Linux?
\nFirst things first, if you are running a Debian Wheezy with a 3.2.x kernel you have nothing to do. The em28xx module is already here. You can use vlc or mplayer. Unfortunatly I didn’t managed to configure vlc properly. After some tweeking and intense internet browsing, I get the following parameters for mplayer: <\/p>\n

\r\nmplayer tv:\/\/ -tv driver=v4l2:width=720:height=480:outfmt=uyvy:norm=NTSC-M:device=\/dev\/video1:input=1:fps=30:alsa:amode=1:forcechan=2:audiorate=48800:adevice=plughw.2,0:forceaudio:immediatemode=0 -ao sdl -vo sdl<\/pre>\n
The input lag is rather small but it can be troublesome if you intend to record longplays. On the other hand, it’s a must-have if you are a coder. No need for an extra screen! This gadget saved my life at Datastorm 2014<\/a>. Our intro<\/a> was nearly done and I borrowed Flubba’s usb EasyCap device to test it on the PC Engine hardware. It was running like a charm under Mednafen<\/a> but it failed miserably on the hardware (blame crappy bank management code). Hopefully it was all fixed before the deadline. This little usb gizmo was also very helpful when I was working on the Everdrive SD card driver or on the Memory Base 128.<\/p>\n
\n\"Fire<\/a>   \"Monster<\/a> <\/p>\n
\"Violent<\/a>   \"In<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some months ago I bought a cheap usb video capture device (dx.com). Using it with vlc under Windows is pretty straightforward. What about Linux? First things first, if you are running a Debian Wheezy with a 3.2.x kernel you have nothing to do. The em28xx module is already here. You\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.blockos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.blockos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.blockos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.blockos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.blockos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.blockos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/blog.blockos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.blockos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.blockos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.blockos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}