are these still hot ass? is it still luck of the draw which chipset you'll get in these and only one is actually decent quality? is there a better option around the same price range?
ok please don't suggest me firewire devices. i'm on a windows host where firewire/dv never quite caught on and certainly isn't available today and i need it to stream live on OBS
@mavica_again the vhs digitizing nerds all tend to still coalesce around the dazzle video capture dongles. Ideally a recent one because drivers for old ones are a pain.
I personally use a sony dvmc-da2 firewire box with a junky old thinkpad x61 that still had ilink as a dedicated capture machine.
@mavica_again my experience is that they're all still hot ass yeah.
the only good one i ever had was a Gadmei UTV380 which they stopped making years ago (and it had jacked up drivers too ofc). when that broke i tried like 3 others which were all terrible, even ones that supposedly used the same chip family. now i use an upscaler connected to an hdmi capture instead, that might be an option worth looking into, there are sub £10 upscalers & hdmi capture devices although i can't vouch for them
@lion damn i completely forgot about turning it into hdmi. i already have an hdmi capture, bought a £5 scaler let's see how it does 👍
@mavica_again I have two different "easycap" devices, one says "Eaiser Cap" on it and the other has no markings. They are a different PCB inside. One runs rather hot, and has a shaky picture. They both kinda work... I used one for Apple II capture mainly because nothing else I have handles the video mode switches well. So... yeah, unfortunately I think it's hard to tell what you're getting, not sure if worth buying a few vs. the next cheapest thing.
@mavica_again @kalleboo I swear by the Canopus/Grass Valley ADVC-110, though it’s FireWire 400, not USB. Works great with the requisite adapters up through Thunderbolt 3. Captures via Final Cut and other DV aware tools. Here’s one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/126305646978
@command_tab @kalleboo i'm too piss poor for apple hardware sorry. needs to be win10
@command_tab @kalleboo also that's a 10x increase in price wow !!! not exactly following "better option around the same price range" request
for half that i'd go with the GV-USB2 instead
@mavica_again @kalleboo Sorry. Just suggesting a setup that I know works reliably and produces an excellent quality capture, in case you were able to compromise on price.
@mavica_again I have one of those. It's okay. Not great but okay.
@drwho yeah i have one too! i just got a new setup that's Comp->HDMI->HDMI capture that is surprisingly not even as good!
i was looking for a new one of those like the image i posted, because mine is old and i need a second. and i guess i'll just have to settle for it being the same as a decade old one
@drwho doesn't look different from the one i'm already looking at on ebay, so i don't have to pay for jeff bezos' jet fuel
@drwho the question from my first post, if it wasn't clear, is if they've changed any in the past decade. i already have one, a decade old, i know how it works and looks... i want to know, from people who have bought the same looking thing more recently, if it had improved any... or if they're still offloading decade old unchanged STK1160 stock...
@drwho and not, particularly, where to find the product i had already posted a picture of a product page with a buy now link of
@mavica_again Oh! Okay.
The answer would be no, probably not, they haven't changed at all in the last decade.
@mavica_again I think I misunderstood, I'm sorry. I thought you were looking for a ref for an identical model and not just information. For whatever it's worth, I think that model's identical.
i have a decade+ old easycap that uses the stk1160 chip and it serves me ok when the jacked up drivers don't bsod my windows. would buying a newer one be any better or are they still using that same chip