Help: Tips for building a video capture device?

[Julian Elischer]

Ola Theander wrote:

>Dear subscribers
>
>I'm trying to help a customer to build a station for documentation using 
>video recording. My customer's business involves inspecting buildings using 
>fibre optics. For this purpose he as constructed a suitcase like station 
>using a DVD-HD recorder found in most retail stores, a flat TV screen etc. 
>However, this station is very heavy and clumsy so I figure that I try and 
>help him to create something more suitable.
>
>My idea is to use one of these ITX-motherboards to build a video capture 
>computer with a simple touch screen interface but I haven't managed to find 
>a motherboard that supports video-in as well as it's able to run FreeBSD or
>Linux. If 
>it's possible I would try to avoid expansion video capture cards since I 
>want to keep the package as small and as cheap as possible, since if this 
>idea works it will be manufactured in a substantial number of units. So if 
>anyone know of a motherboard that meet these requirements, please give me a 
>hint.
>
>This construction is a first draft idea so if any of you hackers out there 
>have some alternative idea how this can be done I'll be glad to hear.
>

have you considerred a DV camcoder and a laptop with a firewire interface?
for example an apple ibook, with a 300GB firewire external disk and a 
small sony DV camcorder
would do all that is required.. (A freebsd/Linux version may take a bit 
more work but
would probaby work as well).



>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Kind regards, Ola Theander
>
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