[gentoo-user] Capture AVI DV, or RAW DV

[gentoo-user] Capture AVI DV, or RAW DV

[Mick]

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Hi All,

I would like to capture the content of some digital video tapes from a 
camcorder with a firewire connection onto my PC and burn a DVD with it.  
Editing would be nice, but not necessary at this stage and I am looking at 
kdenlive for this purpose (kino requires all of the Gnome libs, which I do 
not want to install on this machine).

Unfortunately, kdenlive does not have a capture ability.  I am thinking that 
there must be some engine-room-command available to do this without all the 
kino gui and dependencies.

What would you suggest?
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Capture AVI DV, or RAW DV

[Albert Hopkins]

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:54 +0000, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I would like to capture the content of some digital video tapes from a 
> camcorder with a firewire connection onto my PC and burn a DVD with it.  
> Editing would be nice, but not necessary at this stage and I am looking at 
> kdenlive for this purpose (kino requires all of the Gnome libs, which I do 
> not want to install on this machine).
> 
> Unfortunately, kdenlive does not have a capture ability.  I am thinking that 
> there must be some engine-room-command available to do this without all the 
> kino gui and dependencies.
> 
> What would you suggest?

The "easiest" way is dvgrab.  It's a command-line app that does one
thing: grab video from a digital camcorder via Firewire.  You can then
use whatever program to edit the video as you see fit.

Come with plenty of disk space.

-m

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Re: [gentoo-user] Capture AVI DV, or RAW DV

[Mick]

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On Saturday 27 January 2007 13:49, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:54 +0000, Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I would like to capture the content of some digital video tapes from a
> > camcorder with a firewire connection onto my PC and burn a DVD with it.
> > Editing would be nice, but not necessary at this stage and I am looking
> > at kdenlive for this purpose (kino requires all of the Gnome libs, which
> > I do not want to install on this machine).
> >
> > Unfortunately, kdenlive does not have a capture ability.  I am thinking
> > that there must be some engine-room-command available to do this without
> > all the kino gui and dependencies.
> >
> > What would you suggest?
>
> The "easiest" way is dvgrab.  It's a command-line app that does one
> thing: grab video from a digital camcorder via Firewire.  You can then
> use whatever program to edit the video as you see fit.
>
> Come with plenty of disk space.

He, he!  :)  I know what you mean.  Thanks for the suggestion.  dvgrab seems 
to do exactly what I want - well, if only the autosplit functioned as 
advertised - and it can also save the data in an avi wrapper.

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Regards,
Mick

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