Hi Terje,
Currently my HDV camcorder is on service, so I ask: Is it possible to transfer/grab HDV files via Firewire to ffmpeg? (I have already libiec61883, libraw1394, libavc1394 installed on my Leap). If so, a command example or guide to start with would be welcome.
I still occasionally transfer videos from miniDV/Digital8/Video8 tapes to PC. I use the "dvgrab" tool for that. It's a simple command-line tool and will save the video without any re-encoding. In the second step you can transcode the files with ffmpeg to any format you like (also you might want to consider some advanced deinterlacing/denoising in between depending on your source material and it's intended purpose). I never tried HDV, but it does support HDV as well. It's in the standard Ubuntu repository, no need to compile it yourself, not sure about other distributions. The tricky part is the FireWire interface: Not all FireWire chipsets support cameras flawlessly, my first tries with an onboard-FireWire interface resulted in a lot of corrupted and dropped frames. I got myself an ExpressCard with a VIA VT6315 chipset I'm using in my old notebook, works perfect. I tried a PCI-e card with the same chip in my PC, no luck, entire system crashes every 10 minutes. I assume old PCI-e devices are not completely compatible with new PCs. Best regards Stefan _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
