[Venkatesh]

If you are getting an All-in-Wonder for a PC, stay away from the pre-Radeon models. They tend to have very little driver support, and are quite a pain to work with under both Windows and Linux.

At one time, I needed to transfer video from a camcorder to a PC and an adapter was not available. I used someone's digital camcorder and focused its lens on the viewfinder of the analog camcorder. The video quality was poor, but usable, so if you need to do this very cheaply....