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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Peter Hicks GnuPG public key: http://jah.net/~petong/public_key.txt Key Fingerprint: 4E24 3C78 A165 537C 729C 8D25 3547 3CE9 9E7D 42B6 Paralysis through analysis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
