Re: Video Camera
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:44:58PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I am thinking of buying my daughter a video camera, and I am
> looking for a little advice. Is there within Debian like tools
> for getting MPEG files off a camera, onto a linuc box and
> software to view them, or better still edit trhem?
>
> The camera (a cheap one from Amaxon) appears to use MPEG-4,
> and I am sure I heard that this was to be a closed format with
> royalties charged for it's use. Is this then not a good way to
> go?
>
> I've just read what I've typed and it is quite obvious that I
> don't even know the right questions to ask!
>
> No doubt others have trod this path. Is there an appropriate
> site I should go to and read? I have googled but only seem to
> get references to MPEG-[1-3], or sites offering to sell
> cameras?
>
>Keith.
dvgrab might work for you.
$ apt-cache show dvgrab
Package: dvgrab
Priority: extra
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 236
Maintainer: Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.5deb-2
Depends: libavc1394-0, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libdv4, libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3.3-1), libjpeg62, libquicktime1 (>= 0.9.2release), libraw1394-5, libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.3-1)
Filename: pool/main/d/dvgrab/dvgrab_1.5deb-2_i386.deb
Size: 84640
MD5sum: 2b80afca5986c30872b0e163136d0827
Description: Grab digital video data via IEEE1394 links
dvgrab receives audio and video data from a digital camcorder via an
IEEE1394 (widely known as FireWire) link and stores them into one of
several file formats. It features autosplit of long video sequences,
and supports saving the data as raw frames, AVI type 1, AVI type 2,
Quicktime DV, or a series of JPEG stills.
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