[Arm-netbook] Help, ARM with video composite input ?

[Jean-Luc Aufranc]

On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 09:46 AM, Pedro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a single-board [1] that can make:
> * input / output of composite video (analog)
> * input / output of analog audio
> (doesn't matter if only one jack or two, i.e. could be a input/output connector)
>
> The capabilities of the CPU & GPU would be to encode and decode at
> real time ~MPEG2 (DVD quality)
>
> input / output of analog audio it's easy (a lot of single boards have it)
> the difficult feature is the input at composite video (analog) !
>
> I only found this:
> http://www.empowertechnologies.com/sbc644x.html
> but it's really expensive (~700$)
>
> For solve this problem i'm thinking to search for "capture video card"
> cheap and compatible with GNU/Linux, but this is difficult also :(
>
> I see that single boards (or single board + capture video card) cost
> between ~50$ to ~300$
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Greetings,
> Pedro
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_single-board_computers
>
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I had a quick check about that a few month ago. 
http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/12/24/6-80-easycap-dc60-usb-video-capture-card/
As Roman said, it seems the cheaper one have poor quality. They is about 
4 main chipsets, some are supported in Linux, other not.