frame grabber hardware

[Dan Stromberg]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:22:29 -0700, rubbishemail wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 
> can anybody recommend a simple USB or PCI framegrabber with video input
> that runs under xp and has a python driver available? I just want to get
> the image into a file, no special requirements.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Daniel

I'm not familiar with hardware framegrabbers, but you might consider 
something like VMware as an alternative.  It'll allow you to do 
screenshots too, without any extra hardware (OK, it needs a machine with 
enough disk and RAM).