Help with VC500 Capture Card

[Voideka]

I have a Diamond Multimedia VC500 USB Video Capture Card. I'm trying to use VLC to capture from this card, but I can't get it to work. I can use another program called Open Broadcaster Software to view the card using the settings: device - Conexant Polaris Video Capture, video standard - NTSC_M, crossbar pin 0 video composite in, crossbar pin 0 video decoder out, no audio. When I put these same settings into VLC on the open capture device screen, VLC acts like it's playing. There is no video and the 'video' menu is greyed out, however the audio menu is not and indicates there is an audio track being played and decoded, and it shows up with audio being decoded on the statistics screen. Any ideas?

[Voideka]

Nobody has any ideas?

[wognath]

B. Pinker's helpful answer to a question on Amazon:

Will [the Diamond VC500] work in Linux / ubuntu 14.04? Sep 28, 2014
Yes, but with difficulty. The packaged software is worthless. Open VLC and go to > Media > Open Capture Device. Set Video device name: /dev/video1. Set Audio device name: hw:0,1. Set Video standard: NTSC. That should allow you to view the input stream.

This worked for me to view video (after some trial and error with numbers in device names) but I was unable to record successfully from VLC. I tried convert option under capture device and also the record button. My computer may be too slow. I had to use

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ffmpeg -f v4l2 -i /dev/video0 -f alsa -i hw:2:0 -target ntsc-dvd ouptutfile.mpg

I'm a novice at all this, but I hope it helps.