Gigaware Video Converter Mac Driver

1. Gigaware Video Converter Mac Drivers

Gigaware Video Converter Mac Drivers

Gigaware is RadioShack's house brand for computer peripherals. The VHS to DVD converter is in fact a video adapter, which takes composite and S-video input, and plugs into the computer by USB, providing a webcam-like interface to the video. It's also strangely finicky about the sound. I spent a long time nearly convinced that I simply couldn't get its sound working in Linux, but it does show up in alsamixer when I plug it in.

Turns out the trick is that the device resets all of its audio controls when I open the video stream. That means if I want to simply view the video, I can do it with this script.