Pi Video capture

[jonlucpicard]

Hi, firstly I apologies if I have posted this in the wrong place.

My name is Jon and I have just bought my first Raspberry Pi. I am a complete newbie with the Raspberry Pi and have only been using Linux for a few months (I have Mint 14 on my laptop).

I have a Hauppauge WinTV2 usb box that converts a video signal to mpeg2 via usb. I have used it with Windows and Roxio before to transfer old vhs tapes and programs recorded on my sky+ box onto a hard drive.

Is it possible to use the Pi for video capture?
How would I get this to work?
Will the WinTV2 work with the Pi?
What program can I use for video capture?

Any advice gratefully appreciated.

Thanks Jon

[jonlucpicard]

Anyone??

[RaTTuS]

Converting to H264 is the way to go TBH
however your better off [probably] doing that on on the RPI.
the RPi can playback Mpeg2 with a licence key [http://www.raspberrypi.com/mpeg-2-license-key/ ]
or H264 without

[PiGraham]

There is no mention of TV2 support in Linux here:
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/faq/supp ... linux.html
or here:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge
so it doesn't look promising.

[jonlucpicard]

Thanks