| 1 |
On Saturday 27 January 2007 13:49, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:54 +0000, Mick wrote: |
| 3 |
> > Hi All, |
| 4 |
> > |
| 5 |
> > I would like to capture the content of some digital video tapes from a |
| 6 |
> > camcorder with a firewire connection onto my PC and burn a DVD with it. |
| 7 |
> > Editing would be nice, but not necessary at this stage and I am looking |
| 8 |
> > at kdenlive for this purpose (kino requires all of the Gnome libs, which |
| 9 |
> > I do not want to install on this machine). |
| 10 |
> > |
| 11 |
> > Unfortunately, kdenlive does not have a capture ability. I am thinking |
| 12 |
> > that there must be some engine-room-command available to do this without |
| 13 |
> > all the kino gui and dependencies. |
| 14 |
> > |
| 15 |
> > What would you suggest? |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
> The "easiest" way is dvgrab. It's a command-line app that does one |
| 18 |
> thing: grab video from a digital camcorder via Firewire. You can then |
| 19 |
> use whatever program to edit the video as you see fit. |
| 20 |
> |
| 21 |
> Come with plenty of disk space. |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
He, he! :) I know what you mean. Thanks for the suggestion. dvgrab seems |
| 24 |
to do exactly what I want - well, if only the autosplit functioned as |
| 25 |
advertised - and it can also save the data in an avi wrapper. |
| 26 |
|
| 27 |
-- |
| 28 |
Regards, |
| 29 |
Mick |
Archives