wanted to interface the cameras with inexpensive usb video capture cables. Have you had any luck?

Nope... I was only interested in doing high quality captures. However, I could swear I saw something USB based recently that said it could handle captures well. Can't remember where, try College st. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml