The EasyCap DC60 is not officially supported on Mac OS X. This page is for a port of an unofficial, reverse-engineered Linux driver. Many thanks to Ivor Hewitt for his great Linux version.
This driver does not support the DC60+. If you have a DC60+, VideoGlide should work for you instead.
Checklist:
Specific problems:
It isn’t recognizing my hardware.
Make sure your EasyCap is the correct model and plugged in correctly. Only the DC60 is supported (other models, including the DC60+, are not). Make sure you have the latest version of EasyCapViewer.
It stops playing on its own (the File > Pause menu keeps changing back to “Play”).
Your computer might be too slow, or there might be a problem communicating with the EasyCap device. Choose Error Log from the Window menu to see the error log, which should indicate the problem.
There seems to be a problem communicating with the device.
Try plugging the EasyCap into a different USB port (directly on your computer if possible), or removing the USB extension cable if you're using one. Make sure there aren’t any other high-bandwidth USB devices connected to the same USB bus (most computers share a USB bus between several USB ports).
It says it's playing, but it still just shows a black screen.
Make sure the input source (camera, VCR, video game console, etc.) is connected properly and turned on. Make sure you have the right format selected in the Configure Device panel (in North America, choose NTSC). Choose S-Video or Composite as appropriate as well. (4-channel devices may have problems with inputs besides Composite 1.)
Video works, but audio doesn't.
Make sure you have the right audio input source selected in the Configure Device panel and the volume turned up. If your EasyCap doesn't show up as a source, that means it isn't being recognized by OS X. I’m not sure why that happens for some people, but it might be a hardware problem. Use a different audio input instead.
My 4-channel EasyCap (with 4 yellow composite ports) isn't working.
If you own one and have some free time and technical skills, you can help out by contacting me.
The program becomes unresponsive while recording, even though the video continues to play.
This is a known issue. However, the underlying problem is that your hard drive is not fast enough. If you are trying to record to a USB hard drive, make sure it isn’t on the same USB bus as the EasyCap. Some Macs only have a single USB bus even if they have multiple USB ports! You can use System Profiler (/Applications/Utilties) to check.
For the “raw” recording mode, you will need a fast hard drive or RAID array.
Recording works, but the recorded video occasionally stutters (drops frames).
This is a known issue. It can happen even on a fast CPU with a fast HD.
Recorded audio works in in QuickTime Player, but not in other applications (VLC, mplayer, YouTube, etc.)
EasyCapViewer records to the proprietary QuickTime movie format (.mov), which libavformat-based software seems to have a problem with. If you have QuickTime Player 7 Pro, you can change the movie’s container without re-encoding. The MPEG-4 container (.mp4) seems to work well. (Note that this is not the same as the MPEG-4 codec, which EasyCapViewer supports natively.)
If you're still having problems, please email me. Be sure to mention: