[nzlug] dv camcorders in linux

[Nick Rout]

On 10:53 pm 09/06/06 Joel van Velden <joel at tpnz.co.nz> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 22:20 +1200, sidhai wrote:
> >  I have a canon MV830i and run suse 10.1. Anyone like to give a
> >  blow by blow on howto get camcorder and suse together please. I
> >  guess I need to know what I need installed in the way of specific
> >  software, how to get suse to see the camera, all newbie stuff.
> >  TIA... Rob
>
> I regularly use a dv camera with linux. Firewire support "just works"
> for me. I use a program called 'dvgrab' which is probably included
> with most distros even if its not installed by default.
>
> All dvgrab does is simply transfers the dv data from the tape in the
> camera over firewire to your hard-drive. Sounds simple but i've never
> found a way to do it on windows or mac without going through some
> transcoding process.
>
> Once you have the .dv file you can do anything imaginable with it to
> turn it into a smaller more useful video file. I use ffmpeg2theora to
> convert the dv into ogg theora files, but thats just me.
>
> mencoder can do almost any video format conversion, but its
> command-line.
>
> i'm sure someone else will be able to give you the names of programs
> to do video editing using a gui.
>
> -Joel

Its worth looking at kino (is Suse ships it - probably they will, they are
real bucketware people - thats not necessarily a criticism).

kino I think uses dvgrab or some mutual library, but presents a nice gui,
and then you can do editing etc.

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