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. -- Regards, Mick
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