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I was rooting around for a *, but couldn't seem to find anything
available that would also work under linux.  So I started thinking about
using a TV/video capture card and connecting it to a videocamera.

The computer I plan to run this in is quit old, and the connector pins
on the video card are broken.  Question:  can I install a capture card
(say, ATI TV-Wonder) in my machine *without* connecting it to a video
card ?

I expect I wouldn't be able to watch TV without connecting the two, but
I should still be able to capture images with it, right ?

thanks for any advice,
terry

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Before you buy.

My TV/Video capture card (Haupage TV Go) doesn't have any dedicated
connection to the video card - it just sits on the PCI bus so there wouldn't
even need to be a video (display) card present in the machine to capture
from the capture card.

The only complication would be if you wanted to watch what you were
capturing which is a facility some of the gUI based capture programs offer.
You could use the GUI interface remotely by setting the DISPLAY environment
variable to point to another machine, but this probably wouldn't be fast
enough to monitor what was being captured.  Of course if you are not
bothered about that you can turn the monitoring off or use a command line
based capture tool and all will be fine.