Unfortunately what your talking about is not the same thing. The capture device takes an RCA input and sends to the PC to record. It is useful to convert VHS home videos to digital. And yes I could simply buy a new one but was hoping to not have to.
Thank you for any help you can offer though.
I'm very new to Linux so i basically have no idea what i'm doing. I have an old AV capture device that will not work with windows past XP. I tried a virtual XP machine. got the device recognized but it locks up the system when you actually try and use it. So i have seen some threads online...