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The Hauppauge 558 capture card is an ideal solution for transcoding analog video into digital format or capturing images from the desktop CCD camera. Featuring three composite and one S-Video input connector, the Hauppauge 558 can easily connect to a wide range of analog video sources and convert the video into digital format with its built-in digitizer, reach the speed of up to 30fps over the PCI bus.
Besides the capability of capturing motion video or still frame images, the Hauppauge 558 can also display live video from NTSC or PAL video sources in a resizable window on the PC screen. And thanks to the hardware processing, digitizing of the analog video signal and the resizing of the video image is performed by Hauppauge 558 without slowing downing CPU, providing maximum system performance.
Digitize Your Analog Video Collection The Hauppauge 558 can easily capture your analog video source as motion video or still frame image with the same quality as original signal.
S-Video and Composite Input The Hauppauge 558 features three composite video and one S-Video input connector to provide easy connection to a wide variety of video devices such as DVD players, VHS players and DVs.
Pros: None I could find, because it does not work.
Cons: No Windows 7 support. The way it is described seems like it is skirting around the fact. Mainly, this is an old product. It was a waste of my time and money. I was so eager to stream that I missed this info, and the fact that there are much cheaper capture devices that are way more compatible as well.
Pros: non
Cons: This product only works with windows xp and I dont know what kind of a person needs video capture hardware with no audio this product was the biggest mistake I have ever bought
Overall Review: Don't buy this product
Pros: Worked right out of the box with Ubuntu 12.04, was able to open /dev/video0 and see video
Cons: None that I can tell so far...
Pros: people are stupid
Cons: people are stupid
Overall Review: can anyone tell me where it says that this card is compatible with vista or windows 7. if people would read you wouldn't have to waste so much money
Pros: none
Cons: Will not work with windows 7
Pros: Work right of the box with arch.
Overall Review: I use this with a linux program called motion, on a 1ghz 512mb box (low cpu usage 9%). I only use 2 of the inputs and they work great. Remember that it only shows up as one device /dev/video# and has 4 inputs on that dev. To check use a program called xawtv and change the source to figure out the correct input. I attached a video of motion in action with this card.
Pros: Works very well with Linux and Zoneminder. Easy to install, includes a low profile bracket.
Cons:
In linux, the bottom most plug does not appear to work. I am sure there is a work around, but I don't think it really matters because:
When using 1 input, you get 30 FPS. When using 2 inputs, you get 2.5 FPS. When using 3 inputs, it drops to 0.7 FPS. 2.5 is acceptable for my usage. Just remember that the card is sharing one analog-to-digital converter over 4 ports. The more cameras hooked up, the more the card has to work at switching, syncing, and setting them up with your software.
Overall Review:
This card does not and will not import audio. This seems to be built for budget CCTV systems and does that task quite well.
(I have not tried the card in Windows or OS X)
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Pros: Easy to setup in Ubuntu 14.04.2.
Cons: Not an issue for me, but be aware -THERE IS NO AUDIO INPUTS on this card.
Overall Review: I purchased this to put into an older PC (AMD Phenom X4 955 CPU, 8GB RAM and some fairly cheap discrete AMD GPU [I can't remember the model]). My use case is hooking up a VCR and digitizing old home movies for my parents. The VCR is using RCA outputs. I am using an RCA-to-3.5mm cable to get audio to my mic port on my motherboard for audio input.
I do not believe the card itself is capable of encoding the video. That said, using VLC to record/encode into MP4 the is working great (I beleive software encoded), but YMMV. The source video is 1980's home VHS recordings, so I do not require anything close to HD