Atari 2600 Video Capture Advice

[CX40Hero]

Hi all,

 

I have an AV modded 6 switcher and ive just picked up one of these cheap little easycaps, has anyone used these to any sucsess?

 

 

I'm using a modernish windows desktop and want to record some of my gameplay (for high score attempts etc) but don't fancy running Stella, I much prefer original (all be it slightly modded) hardware.

 

Any advice re setup, best programs to run the device with, will be greatly appreciated

Edited August 17, 2018 by CX40Hero

[FireStar]

I can recommend using OBS studio or AmarecTV for capture, OBS is a bit more modern and will let you livestream if you're interested in that, whilst AmarecTV has a ton of options relevant to retro gaming, such as a bunch of deinterlacing options. Personally I use yadifx2 deinterlacing in OBS when recording consoles from composite.

 

Also a word of warning on the easycap if you are using s-video, the s-video input may not actually be s-video but just s-video converted to composite, my particular easycap model does this. It's pretty easy to tell since it'll look like a mess.

[+DrVenkman]

OBS Studio works great for S-video and composite from my 1088XEL. It should work similarly great for my AV-modded 4-Switch Woody, though I've never actually tested it.

[CX40Hero]

I may have made this more difficult for myself, Windows has now been changed to Ubuntu 18.04 64 bit LTS....

Mainly because the hard drive died that was running Windows...... and I hated it....

[CX40Hero]

https://youtu.be/g-VzDspB5CU

[CX40Hero]

Hi Guys!

 

I'm getting nowhere with VLS and Ive been recommended OBS by quite a few people, when I run it however I get the following error, any ideas?

 

david@dday1sc:~$ obs
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
Attempted path: share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Dark.qss
Attempted path: /usr/share/obs/obs-studio/themes/Dark.qss
info: CPU Name: Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz
info: CPU Speed: 1639.848MHz
info: Physical Cores: 2, Logical Cores: 2
info: Physical Memory: 3910MB Total, 466MB Free
info: Kernel Version: Linux 4.15.0-34-generic
info: Distribution: "Ubuntu" "18.04"
info: Portable mode: false
QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_advAudioProps_clicked()
QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_advAudioProps_destroyed()
QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_program_customContextMenuRequested(QPoint)
info: OBS 0.0.1 (linux)
info: ---------------------------------
info: ---------------------------------
info: audio settings reset:
samples per sec: 44100
speakers: 2
info: ---------------------------------
info: Initializing OpenGL...
error: X Error: GLXBadFBConfig
error: Failed to create OpenGL context.
error: Failed to create context!
error: device_create (GL) failed
error: Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated.
info: Freeing OBS context data
info: == Profiler Results =============================
info: run_program_init: 6818.66 ms
info: ┣OBSApp::AppInit: 1.812 ms
info: ┃ ┗OBSApp::InitLocale: 1.474 ms
info: ┗OBSApp::OBSInit: 142.896 ms
info: ┣obs_startup: 22.623 ms
info: ┗OBSBasic::OBSInit: 39.142 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::InitBasicConfig: 0.141 ms
info: ┣OBSBasic::ResetAudio: 0.413 ms
info: ┗OBSBasic::ResetVideo: 38.468 ms
info: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=0.095 ms, median=0.284 ms, max=9.47 ms, 99th percentile=3.397 ms, 100% below 25 ms
info: audio_thread(Audio): min=0.04 ms, median=0.062 ms, max=0.368 ms, 99th percentile=0.181 ms
info: =================================================
info: == Profiler Time Between Calls ==================
info: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=25.2 ms, median=25.359 ms, max=34.556 ms, 93.8224% within ±2% of 25 ms (0% lower, 6.17761% higher)
info: =================================================
info: Number of memory leaks: 172
david@dday1sc:~$ ^C
david@dday1sc:~$

 

Ive run sudo apt-get update and still get the same error message..... I really want to get some form of capture ready for HSC season 8!!!!