Greetings, I have several DV tapes, both mine and borrowed from relatives. Many are only partly full, or I only want to save part of their content. I would like to "consolidate" all the video in the original DV format as is on tape on the smallest possible number of tapes. In that way I would have all the "source" and could start editing them in a second moment, always keeping the master DV video available. I have a JVC camcorder which works with SUSE 10 (I've already loaded movies in kino from it) via IEEE1394. What I want to do is: 1) copy all the raw video, without any transcoding, from camcorder to hard disk 2) when disk is full, copy all raw video from disk to empty tape in the camcorder repeat 1-2 until I've copied all the tapes. Is it possible to do this from suse? The ideal solution would be something semiautomatic, which stops saving to disk when there is no more video in the tape in the camcorder, but any solution is OK. TIA, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 5 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ With the right to be informed goes the duty to seek information. Information does not simply occur; it has to be sought. PASTORAL INSTRUCTION "COMMUNIO ET PROGRESSIO"