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A couple of my engineer coworkers and I have been spending many days trying to get simple RCA camera input to work on a raspi, but nothing works and we are so frustrated at this point that I think the whole project is going to be scrapped.

I have tried a few USB-to-RCA converts and some purely USB webcams but always get errors or weird images. This occurs on various Pi's and OS's. But never any issue for Windows..

We need a more direct/reliable approach and I was wondering if I can somehow solder an RCA jack to the Picamera input port for direct signal input without all the funky converters, or any similar hacks?

I know raspberry pi has a whole assortment of cameras I can pick from but none will work for us, and I require using a specific camera that is NTSC.

Is it possible to hotwire an RCA input (soldering directly to PCB pads/traces)? Or an RCA-to-ribbon cable adapter, Or any USB-to-RCA converts that are guaranteed to just work??

I need a solution soon as I don't think management can justify us continuing without producing any results.

Aurora0001
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There is no way to make an RPi accept the RCA video signal directly.

You could try RCA->USB converters based on Stk1160 chipset. There's even a blog dedicated to this chipset and Linux.

If you get a converter and it doesn't work, try to revert to an old Raspbian release (2013) to get the old easycap driver. Newer drivers dropped support of some of the STK clones.

Dmitry Grigoryev
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