Experiences with the easycap DC60 audio and video capture adapter on Linux

This Blog is dedicated to all owners of the STK1160 chip based EasyCAP (or identical) devices, who want to use it under Linux.

Activating audio for the STK1160 device: read the this post

German speaking users: read my article on ubuntuusers.de

The EasyCAP DC60 and its clones are cheap little USB analogue capturing devices which can be used for viewing and recording video under Linux from different sources like VHS tape recorders, satellitereceivers, camcorders ...

Friday, April 22, 2011

Overview

updated: April 2011
  • it supports all the three different types of the easyCAP DC60 device
    see the Devices page, to identify your device
  • For a quick installation guide see the Install page.
  • I modified the recording script. Now it is an easy solution to invoke the viewing applications (mplayer, vlc and tvtime), or to make recordings.
    It can be downloaded from the Recording page.
More detailed information can be found in the open discussion on the drivers page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/easycapdc60/forums/forum/1071438

This Blog is dedicated to all owners of the EasyCAP DC60 or identical device, who want to use it under Linux.

The device has some limitations, but it is a good solution for viewing and even capturing from any analog video source under Linux.


Andrew (alias Professor Schalk)