Diego's Rants » easycap http://blog.massanti.com Confessions from a Geek Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:22:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 I have bought an EasyCAP http://blog.massanti.com/2008/10/21/i-have-bought-an-easycap/ http://blog.massanti.com/2008/10/21/i-have-bought-an-easycap/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:41:01 +0000 Diego Massanti http://blog.massanti.com/?p=867 So i have a lot of family videos on several analog media (VHS-C, Super VHS, Hi-8 and 8mm) that i want to finally convert to something not so vulnerable to aging, DVD being an option but Blu-Ray saying “me! me!” on my head.

Even the fact that I have several workstations with professional level video capture devices, those machines are usually working doing renders or any other thing and is not that I can waste days capturing all that media there, so i decided to buy one of those EasyCap devices on eBay and give it a try.

The specifications are pretty outstanding for what it is, and specially, for the $15 price… AND it is compatible with Mac OS (by using the non-free VideoGlide app) which makes it even better.

Just some highlights:

  • Complies with Universal Serial Bus Specification Rev 2.0
  • Supports NTSC, PAL (B), Video format
  • Video input: RCA composite or S-Video
  • Audio input: Stereo audio (RCA)
  • Dimension(Main Body): 8.8cm x 2.8cm x 1.8cm typical credit card size is 8.5cmx5.4cm)
  • Powers by USB 
  • Supports high quality video resolution for 
  • NTSC: 720 x 480 @30fps
  • PAL: 720 x 576 @25fps

Im still waiting for it to arrive, and i will post several video examples and personal impressions as soon as i get it.

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