Repurpose an old analog tv video card capture

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Still haven’t got around to writing up notes ( not had access to equipment for quite a while ), but there is some info here:

Old Pinnacle systems capture card

I’m still getting around to writing up the notes: PC Building At The End of The World Which is intended as a guide for this sort of thing. From memory, most of these older cards will work with any flavour of Linux (drivers are in the kernel, so doesn’t matter if Ubuntu or PopOS or Arch etc). They get registered as a V4L2 device and show up as a webcam-like device in OBS and other software. On Linux there’s no auto-detect, so you must find and then enable the driver for the type of capture ch…

Brooktree / Conexant based capture card will work easily with Linux and show up as a video source like a webcam.