[LBo] DV capture device that works well with linux

[Andrew Henry]

Jackson Robertson wrote:
> I am looking for a DV caputer device that will work well with linux.
> Back in high school for a school project some friends and I used my
> parents sony hi8 (maybe a different tape format) to make a video. I
> would like to get the footage off the tape onto my computer. I have
> acess to the camera itself and I'm pretty sure it just has a/v
> (red,white,yellow) conectors. 
>
> Also, what is a good video editing software? The discussion of kino
> makes it seem like a good one but I have never edited video before. I
> just need something easy with a good feature set. 
>
> Thanks for the input and help.
>
> Jackson Robetson
>
>   
Hi,

There are many different TV capture cards on the market that allow you
to capture from a camcorder device.  See the LinuxTV website for a list
of Linux compatible cards.  Note that you may have to do quite a bit of
investigation to find a card that has the right chip in it, as support
in Linux is mostly based on which processor is used in the product.

http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/List_survey_of_cards_in_use_now

These capture cards will have driver support in Linux, but then you need
to get an application that can capture from the connected camcorder
using the driver in the kernel.  Kino is a very good capture application
and is really easy to use for simple editing techniques, like cutting,
clipping and pasting clips, importing/exporting clips and adding simple
effects like titles and fade ins/outs, but it is by no means an advanced
NLE (non-linear editor with support for multiple video/audio tracks). 
Unfortunately, I do not really know if it can be used to capture from an
analogue device!  I have only ever tried with a DV camcorder and when I
go into the capture menu, it loads the firewire modules, as if to say
that it expects a firewire input.

This link might help finding an app, but I have not investigated further:

http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/TV_Recording

If you cannot find an app. that captures from analogue video, then do
what I did and borrow someone's DV camera to connect the Hi8 camcorder
through the DV cam, so that you can capture with Kino, or borrow
someone's consumer DVD recorder, as they almost always have the ability
to capture from camcorder and write to disc as an MPEG-2 DVD.  Then you
can use Mencoder to convert to other formats if you do not want it in
MPEG format.

--andrew

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