I’m trying to get my Hi8 tapes on to my harddisk. Therefore I just added a Hauppauge HVR-1300 to my system (openSUSE 11.0).
It seems that the hardware is detected … but how do I actually proceed??
The first problem I have is that I can’t get any pictures from my Hi8 CamCorder on my PC, how do I actually select the s-video input.
Any clues are appreciated!
TIA
Arjan ten Hoopen
You will need something like the streamer utility from the xawtv package. Using this, you can then tell it to take input from the s-video of your card and then output it into an avi or similar. I have used this to get video from my Hi8 camera to my PC but find that the sound quality is rather poor, I am not sure why this is and havnt really played around too much with it. You should be able to use the xawtv GUI to view and capture video as well although I found this to be a bit flaky as well.
An example streamer command is below:
streamer -o James.avi -f rgb24 -n pal -s 640x480 -r 25.0 -t 00:00:30 -i composite1 -F stereo
I dont know if there are any other packages which can perform this kind of operation but would be interested if anyone finds a good one!
Actually, sorry you dont need to install xawtv - just the v4l-tools package for streamer.
Check out this link as well.
Thanks!! II’ll have a play with it next weekend 
Arjan