fit-IoT Users Forum

One thing that is missing to make this a nice media PC is video capture,
so TV etc can be recorded.

There seem to be quite a few USB based video capture devices, but
many don't work well on Linux, and others require significant host
resources (e.g. 2GHz Processor) to do some of the work.

If a USB Video Capture device could be identified which worked well
with the fit-PC2 running Linux, that would significantly increase my
motivation to buy.

Is that something that CompuLab might be in a position to look in to??

Video capture is nice for a surveillance PC - and Fit-PC is perfect for that, except maybe the video capturing in Linux.. I am still toying with that idea..

I can certainly attest to USB video input devices working fine on lower powered systems than the fitPC2. I've ran DVB USB (Hauppauge DVB-T and Nova TD) on PIII and Celeron with no problems.

All the modern version of these cards do HW MPEG2 compression, so all you get is an MPEG2 stream. All the PC has to do is either save that to media, or display it.