I've got to set up an installation which processes video from a remote camera over a wireless 2.4GHz sender. This outputs to Composite video (the yellow phono plug).

Currently I've got no hardware on my linux box which can take in composite video and feed it to PD so I need to buy one.

I'd like some advice on cost-effective capture cards which people have tried and are known to have worked (at least once - I know there are no guarantees here).

So has anyone succeeded in taking in Composite video from an outside video source into PD (GEM) on linux, and what capture card did they use?

I'm running latest Debian on regular commodity intel box.

I get the same crash when stopping rendering on Ubuntu 6.10, even when all is well with the video connection. It just doesn't like it.

Also I can't get a DigiTV card to show composite video properly - shows up as black and white corrupted sort of video instead, as if it's trying to read in Composite Video as S-Video, and I can't get the card to switch the input type.

I switched to a Mercury PCI TV card I had knocking around, and it works well.

I think it's important to fire the proper channel to get it to pick up the video correctly. I tried a few different channel values before I got anything visible at all.

For some reason I can't get to that address. The server may be out.

Can't pick up that particular page on the wayback machine either (http://archive.org).

Hopefully the server will come back, but if it doesn't and you remember the device names that would be very handy.