From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 16:03:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75FC616A4CF for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:03:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from merke.itea.ntnu.no (merke.itea.ntnu.no [129.241.7.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D895143D48 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:03:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merke.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A3A113C628 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:03:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from mirrorball.thelosingend.net (m069c.studby.ntnu.no [129.241.130.69]) by merke.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with SMTP for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:03:01 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 79943 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2004 16:03:01 -0000 Received: from m190d.studby.ntnu.no (129.241.131.190) by m069c.studby.ntnu.no with QMQP; 10 Dec 2004 16:03:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Dec 2004 16:03:01 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:03:01 +0100 (CET) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen X-X-Sender: sveinhal@maren.thelosingend.net To: Rob In-Reply-To: <41B85144.5080904@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20041210165745.M35577@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <41B85144.5080904@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Content-Scanned: with sophos and spamassassin at mailgw.ntnu.no. cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Digital video camera + IEEE-1394 + Firewire: How? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:03:04 -0000 * Rob [2004-12-09 22:21 +0900] > What do I need for transferring the movies from the video camera > to my PC? Do I need software? Is that in the ports? The camera will almost certainly send raw dv-data iver the ieee1394 (aka firewire, ilink, etc) cable when set on "Play". You can then use fwcontrol which is in the base system, to save the stream to disk. Now you have a raw dv-file. This file can be transcoded using dv2jpg, transcode, or some other program. You'll find something in ports. You can also use dd to extract frames and subsections of the movie. You can use dvbackup to camouflage ramdom binary data as dv-data and then use fwcontrol to send it to tape. This way you can use your dv-camera as a cheap way of making backups (12-14 GB pr. tape). man fwcontrol(8)