![]() ![]() usbcore: registered new interface driver em28xx Since there are many devices using that chip-set, the idea was to try and trick the OS into recognising this particular device as one that was supported. This device uses an EM2860 chip-set, which seems to be generally supported quite well in the Video4Linux project. This caused me a lot of headaches to make it work, and I threw the towel in a few times, but eventually I got it fully working. If it worked, a Video4Linux video device such as "/dev/video0" would be created and playable using VLC. Plugging the device into a Linux PC does not cause the device to be auto-detected. To add insult to injury the device does work on Mac OSX, but only after you pay more Apple Tax for no good reason for some bespoke software. ![]() Of course this device worked on Windows but did not work immediately on Linux. I acquired one of these as part of a bird-box nest-cam project. The EZCap USB Video Grabber is a seemingly, cheapo no-brand, I would go so far as to say in my opinion "crappy", USB video capture device that is used to grab video (and audio) from an analogue video camera. This was done some time ago, so some things may be a little bit out of date, but the general information will still be correct. This page describes how to get a ForwardVideo EZCap USB Video Grabber device working on Linux, for use with VLC and other things too I suppose. ![]()
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