<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jamesfmilne</author><text>You can also use devices that are USB Video Class (UVC) compliant, thus which don&amp;#x27;t require any drivers.&lt;p&gt;libuvc can be used to capture from these devices:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ktossell&amp;#x2F;libuvc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ktossell&amp;#x2F;libuvc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can get cheap off-brand UVC USB grabbers, or you can get higher quality gear, like the AJA U-TAP:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aja.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;u-tap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aja.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;u-tap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly though I haven&amp;#x27;t seen anything that comes close to £45 :-)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cheap HDMI capture for Linux</title><url>https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/cheap-hdmi-capture-for-linux</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SoapSeller</author><text>Cool hack, but the part about the cost of off-the-shelf solutions is wildly wrong - Blackmagic&amp;#x27;s HDMI capture solutions can be purchased for less than 145usd for pci-e and 200usd for usb3 and they have free drivers&amp;amp;sdk for linux.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cheap HDMI capture for Linux</title><url>https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/cheap-hdmi-capture-for-linux</url></story>