{"id":169,"date":"2005-07-04T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/free_software\/linux\/finding_hardware_that_doesnt_suck.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"finding_hardware_that_doesnt_suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2005\/07\/04\/finding_hardware_that_doesnt_suck","title":{"rendered":"Finding Hardware That Doesn&#8217;t Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the first one to have this complaint, but I really wish there was a list somewhere of the Best (x) that Just Works under GNU\/Linux, where (x) is a device or card. Right now, I just want a good analog video capture card (for editing and converting VHS home videos to DVD). I keep coming across webpages that say, &#8220;I&#8217;ve gotten this to work under kernel 2.2&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;d just like for every hardware buying experience to not be a four or five hour expedition. Just tell me what I want, and I&#8217;ll find just choose the lowest price from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricewatch.com\">pricewatch<\/a> and call it a day. <\/p>\n<p> And, hey, while I&#8217;m complaining: does anyone have any idea why tcextract locks up vim for several seconds at a time even when run at nice 19? <\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"smallcaps\">Update<\/span>: I should clarify if anyone actually wants to answer my video capture question that it is for a laptop, so it either needs to be a USB2, Firewire, or PCMCIA device. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the first one to have this complaint, but I really wish there was a list somewhere of the Best (x) that Just Works under GNU\/Linux, where (x) is a device or card. Right now, I just want a good analog video capture card (for editing and converting VHS home videos to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}