On 11/23/2010 11:32 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

Guys,

Just looking to see if someone has a favorite app that will get the video from your digital video camera to your hard drive. The connection is over 1394 firewire. I would love something that works from the CLI that is scriptable. I don't need the full video editing suite for just grabbing the raw video.

I'm just looking for something where I can load the tape into the camera and do something like type:

~> dldVideo

and go do something else for an hour, come back, change tapes and:

~> dldVideo

again....

Anything better than dvgrab?

Looks like dvgrab is the ticket. A small helper script does what I wanted: #!/bin/bash usage() { [[ -n $1 ]] && echo -e "\n ERROR: $1\n" echo -e "\n Usage: ${0##*/} dv_out_filename dv_out_dirname\n" echo -e " Invokes: dvgrab --timestamp --format raw ${VLOC}/${FNAME}\n" exit 1 } case $1 in *-h* ) VLOC=dv_out_dirname; FNAME=dv_out_fname; usage;; * ) FNAME=${1:-dcrv-}; esac VLOC=${2:-/dat_e/dv} ## test, create dv storage dir or exit if unable [[ -d $VLOC ]] || mkdir -p $VLOC [[ -d $VLOC ]] || usage "Unable to create directory: '$VLOC'" ## start the capture with dvgrab echo "\n Starting: dvgrab --timestamp --format raw ${VLOC}/${FNAME}\n" dvgrab --timestamp --format raw ${VLOC}/${FNAME} echo "" exit 0 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org