On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:54 +0000, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I would like to capture the content of some digital video tapes from a 
> camcorder with a firewire connection onto my PC and burn a DVD with it.  
> Editing would be nice, but not necessary at this stage and I am looking at 
> kdenlive for this purpose (kino requires all of the Gnome libs, which I do 
> not want to install on this machine).
> 
> Unfortunately, kdenlive does not have a capture ability.  I am thinking that 
> there must be some engine-room-command available to do this without all the 
> kino gui and dependencies.
> 
> What would you suggest?

The "easiest" way is dvgrab.  It's a command-line app that does one
thing: grab video from a digital camcorder via Firewire.  You can then
use whatever program to edit the video as you see fit.

Come with plenty of disk space.

-m

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