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?
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
@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.
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