On Sun, 2007-15-04 at 14:50 +0200, Herman Robak wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 07:52 -0400, Fred Williams wrote:
> > Hello people,
> > I am using a Sony HVR-Z1U camera to shoot HDV and I want to upload it
> > into my computer. I have been using Kino for uploads over the firewire
> > for regular DV and the Z1U has a firewire connector but does Kino
> > recognise HDV? I'm guessing not.
>
> That is correct, Kino only understands DV.
>
> > Is there any way I can do this with Ubuntu Linux?
>
> There are three ways:
>
> 1) mpg1394grab, which is distributed as a single file of C source code.
> 2) test-mpeg2, which is found in the _source_ package for libiec61883
> (available in Ubuntu's repositories)
> 3) A patched version of dvgrab. This is apparently the most robust
> alternative, as it does proper buffering.
>
> I only know 1 and 2. I still use mpg1394grab, as it was the only tool
> that I knew of when I purchased my HDV camera two years ago.
>
> As far as I can tell, a program to grab HDV is not provided in any of
> the binary packages for the common Linux distributions. You have to
> patch and compile, or at least use some third party package.
>
Thanks for the quick response. I'll give these a try. If I can get
this done before I have to return the rented camera, it'll help a great
deal.
--
Regards,
Fred Williams
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