Experiences with the easycap DC60 audio and video capture adapter on Linux

This Blog is dedicated to all owners of the STK1160 chip based EasyCAP (or identical) devices, who want to use it under Linux.

Activating audio for the STK1160 device: read the this post

German speaking users: read my article on ubuntuusers.de

The EasyCAP DC60 and its clones are cheap little USB analogue capturing devices which can be used for viewing and recording video under Linux from different sources like VHS tape recorders, satellitereceivers, camcorders ...

Monday, November 14, 2011

Compendium

Time passes on and things change.

  • The Easycapdriver is now part of the kernel release (since 2.6.38). This means, that the EasyCAP DC60 works out of the box with Ubuntu 11.04 (no audio support), Ubuntu 11.10 (full ALSA audio support) and onward.
  • If you need to install the driver by yourself (e.g. for previous kernel versions), you can download the sourcecode (0.9 version) from here:
    https://sites.google.com/site/viewandrecordwithlinux/file-cabinet/easycap_dc60.0.9.tar.gz?attredirects=0&d=1
  • If you want to initiate further development of the easycapdriver, you can submit bugs to bugzilla.kernel.org or to the bug filing systems of the major Linux distributuins like Ubuntu.
  • Mike Thomas has withdrawn the driver on sourceforge. On this site http://easycapdc60.sourceforge.net/ his statement can be found.
    Even the whole discussion on the former projectpage has been deleted. (So some links on this blog are dead now.)
  • For German speaking users i wrote some articles on ubuntuusers.de wich cover the same informations than this blog.
  • Some updates remain to be done on this blog, but i hope, that even in this present state this informations are useful.
Andrew