RE: [Nolug] Video capture from VCR to DV using a firewire or USB2 device

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 11:32 -0400, Petri Laihonen wrote:
> I never received the original post, but here are the keywords needed:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=video+editing+linux+dv
>
> One may add the word "pro" or "prosumer" to it as well.

That's *editing*. Don't want to edit. Want to capture from an
analog source. Besides, I've found that grabbing DV from a
camcorder is trivial with kino and dvgrab.

> NOTE!
> USB2 is NOT suitable for video editing.
>
> Additionally, if your souce is non-dv, such as most VCR's. You need a
> transcoder (another keyword for google) in betwwen your analog signal and
> DV signal. On the computer end, any $30 Firewire controller is enough
> hardwarewise.

Ok, I'll add that to my Googles.

[snip]
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On
> > Behalf
> > Of Ron Johnson
> > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 3:47 AM
> > To: NOLUG ML
> > Subject: [Nolug] Video capture from VCR to DV using a firewire or USB2
> > device
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone know of a way to do such a thing? I've googled my fingers
> > off, but nothing looks really promising.
> >
> > It needs to be an external device because my PC is SFF, and there's
> > no real room for a PCI video capture card.
> >
> > (It's possible using a modern camcorder as an intermediary, but
> > I'd rather connect the VCR to the external device, run start up
> > a linux program, press the VCR's play button, and directly capture
> > the video. But since I don't have such a camcorder, that's not
> > even a work-around solution.)

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