Hi,
I'm trying to capture old DV and HDV tapes using a 15-year-old HDV
camera and Firewire on a MacBook Pro. I'm using a fairly recent version
of ffmpeg.
I don't have any problem with the DV tapes, using the AVFoundation input
device:
ffmpeg -f avfoundation -capture_raw_data true -i "HDV-VCR:1" -c copy
output.mkv
The resulting file contains a dvvideo video stream and a pcm_s16le audio
stream. Everything works as expected.
With HDV tapes, though, the command above doesn't work. Using
avfoundation, ffmpeg apparently expects DV frames and can't find any. It
stops with an error.
If I set capture_raw_data to false, I can somehow manage to capture
something.
ffmpeg -f avfoundation -capture_raw_data false -i "HDV-VCR:1" -c copy
output.mkv
But the resulting file contains uncompressed video (rawvideo (UYVY /
0x59565955), uyvy422, 1416x1062, 1k tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc) instead of the
native stream. I could specify a video codec, of course, but the stream
would then be transcoded (mpeg2 -> uncompressed -> mpeg2). I want to
capture the native stream, untouched.
iMovie and LifeFlix don't seem to have any problem capturing the raw HDV
stream into a MOV file (mpeg2video (Main) (hdv2 / 0x32766468),
yuv420p(tv, bt709, top coded first (swapped)), 1440x1080 [SAR 4:3 DAR
16:9], 25000 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn, 59.94 tbc). The "only"
problem is that ffmpeg sometimes fails to read those MOV files
correctly. This is another problem. I've created a ticket for that.
Question: is there any way to capture an HDV stream using ffmpeg on
macOS? Should I switch to Linux, using the iec61883 input device? Or
Windows, using the dshow input device?
Thanks in advance,
Olivier
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