I don't know if anyone on this forum has used video capture devices in Linux, but I thought I would ask.
I have a StarTech SVID2USB2 (USB ID eb1a:2821) that I want to use in Lubuntu 18.04 (I upgraded since my last posts in this forum - no more Athlon XP). Unfortunately, this is one of the unknown devices in the em28xx driver.
https://kernel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/media/v4l-drivers/em28xx-cardlist.html
I opened the capture device and found that it uses the same board as the Plextor device reviewed here (Google translated from Russian):
There are multiple cards in the first link that use the same chips, which makes me think the implementation is different between cards (possibly firmware - if I remember right, the chip that review skipped over is an EEPROM). Forcing the driver to initialize the device as card 9 was one suggestion I found, and it didn't work. The only software that gave any output at all was OBS, and it had distorted video and no audio. I've discovered that the card appears as a USB audio device, but Audacity in Windows records silence unless video was captured first. (Note that I was testing capture software in a virtual machine on my main desktop instead of the real computer.)
Once again, I don't know if anyone on this forum has done this, but maybe someone can refer me to a more relevant support forum. This is the only thing I need Windows for on my laptop (and Windows 7 runs a lot worse than Linux does on a Core i3-2330M with 4GB of RAM).
Edited by lti, 16 June 2019 - 11:32 PM.