Capture Devices

Supported Devices

• BT8x8 (bt8x8)
• SAA7131 (saa7131)

Devices related to ld-decode/vhs-decode

• CX2388x (cx88)
• Domesday Duplicator (tbc/tbc-vbi)

Most of the mentioned cards can only be bought second-hand, as they are 20 years or older. Another drawback is, that they only have a PCI interface, whereas current motherboards have PCI-E only. But there is good news. On Aliexpress the BT8x8 and CX2388x cards can be bought as PCI-E version. They have a PCI to PCI-E bridge on board.

Here are some links to these cards

BT8x8 - Link 1 / Link 2

CX2388x - List of Sellers

Having PCI-E, those cards can also be used in ARM devices that have a PCI-E slot, like the Quartz64 model A from Pine64.

Some pretty recent motherboards can have issues recognizing these cards and get stuck in POST. Solution unknown. This experience was made with a recent AM5 board.

Unsupported Devices

• MT210x USB "EasyCap"

Adding a new card

TODO