The EasyCap DC60/002 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.
This driver requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.
| Feature / Model | DC60 | 002 | DC60+ | 009 |
| Description | Composite/S-Video | 4-channel composite | Composite/S-Video | Unknown |
| Vendor:Product ID | 05e1:0408 | 05e1:0408 | Unknown | Unknown |
| 1-channel composite | Yes | Yes | Use VideoGlide | Use VideoGlide |
| S-Video | Yes | N/A | ||
| 4-channel composite | N/A | Yes | ||
| Automatic channel rotation | N/A | No | ||
| Sound | * | No | ||
| Live preview | Yes | Yes | ||
| Recording | Yes | Yes |
Checklist:
Specific problems:
It isn’t recognizing my hardware.
Make sure your EasyCap plugged in correctly.
Check the USB Product and Vendor IDs using System Profiler (/Applications/Utilities/). The Product ID must be 0x0408 and the Vendor ID must be 0x05e1 (these correspond to the DC60/002). If you have a different device, I can’t help you. Sorry.
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.
The video is garbled or 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).
If that doesn’t help, your CPU/GPU might be too slow. This is especially likely if you’re running OS X on a PowerPC Mac or a Hackintosh with a Pentium 4 or Atom CPU. Choose Show Dropped Frames from the View menu to see a red border flash every time a frame is dropped. Use Activity Monitor (/Applications/Utilities/) to check CPU usage while EasyCapViewer is running. Making the window smaller might help.
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.
Video works, but audio doesn’t.
In EasyCapViewer, open the Configure Device panel and make sure that “USB 2.0 Video Capture Controller” is selected (it should be the first option, with a divider line after it). If you don’t see that option, that means your EasyCap’s audio input isn’t supported.
If your EasyCap’s audio isn’t supported, you can use your Mac’s line-in jack and a cheap RCA to ⅛" jack adapter cable. Select “Built-in Input” in EasyCapViewer. If the audio sounds distorted, go into the Sound pane in System Preferences, click the Input tab, select the Line In input, and then drag the input volume slider all the way to the left.
Recording works, but the recorded video occasionally stutters (drops frames).
There are two symptoms related to dropping frames. If the video stops completely every couple of seconds, your hard drive is probably too slow. If it’s continuously dropping a few frames at a time, then your CPU is probably too slow. If both are happening, then both your HD and CPU are too slow. Almost all laptop (2.5") hard drives are going to be too slow.
For the compressed codecs, a fast CPU is needed. Moderate hard drive speed is also necessary. Increasing the compression (by turning down the video quality) should help with hard drive bandwidth.
For the “raw” recording mode, you will need a very fast hard drive or RAID array. CPU speed shouldn’t matter much.
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/Utilities/) to check.
If your hard drive is too slow, and you’re recording short videos, you can try using the “Record to RAM” option. This mode has several limitations so it isn’t suitable for general use.
I am interested in hearing what kind of hard drives work. If your setup performs well, please email me. Include as much information about it as possible. Thanks.
If you use Time Machine, you may wish to temporarily disable it in order to prevent unnecessary CPU and HD access during recording.
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 format without re-encoding. If you record with the MPEG-4 codec, use the MPEG-4 container (.mp4).
If you’re having problems, feel free to email me. (Please read the troubleshooting section above, first!) Be sure to mention: