Video Capture devices

green-bright-eyes · Mar 15th 2015

I wonder if there is any device (USB or for the VU+ slot) to perform video capture.
Has anyone tried any of them?

**stevejo** · Mar 15th 2015

Are you wanting to capture on a pc or on the vu

davvo · Mar 15th 2015

you can capture any video to vu+ hdd or usb with vlc

you can capture with wget via telnet to vu+ hdd or usb

you can use rtmpdump or livestreamer via telnet to vu+ hdd or usb

green-bright-eyes · Mar 16th 2015

As I wrote, "device (USB or FOR the VU+ slot)". For the PC I know there are many devices.
I'd like to connect my old VHS VCR to the VU+ and capture old analogue videos. It's simply that.

**stevejo** · Mar 16th 2015

Use you pc then far less complicated no such device

sep8001 · Mar 16th 2015

If you have a PC with a FireWire card you can buy an old mini dv camcorder with av passthrough. Connect the VHS player to the camcorder, camcorder to PC and capture to PC.

There are cheap USB capture devices available on ebay/amazon but they are a bit hit and miss and the quality is not all that good.

green-bright-eyes · Mar 16th 2015

Actually, I've got PCs and Macs as I'm a IT reseller. It's just that, for many reasons difficult to explain here, I'd like to to do the job by the VU+ instead.
But, if it's as stevejo said, that there is no capture device for VU+, there's not much to do about...

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