How to copy a video from a digital camcorder via FireWire to your harddisk

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install the packages

make sure you have installed the needed packages:

# rpm -qa|grep dvgrab dvgrab-3.2-1.fc8

also make sure you have loaded the required kernel modules:

# lsmod |grep -i iee && lsmod |grep -i fire ieee1394 72372 1 ohci1394 firewire_ohci 22341 0 firewire_core 34785 1 firewire_ohci crc_itu_t 6080 1 firewire_core

grab it

switch your camera on, and run the following command:

# dvgrab film send oops Found AV/C device with GUID 0x0000850000f463a3 Capture Started

stop dvgrab with "Ctrl+C".

This will copy your data (unmodified!) to a file called "film001.dv". There are a gazillion options for dvgrab. Here are some good examples:

Backup DV to DVD (example from the man pages):

 
dvgrab --autosplit --size 1998 --csize 4400 --cmincutsize 10  foo-

Records video data from the default IEEE1394 source, cuts it into chunks when a new recording starts or when the current file exceeds 1998 megabytes, or the current collection of files exceeds 4400 megabytes. It also reduces the size of the smallest file made due to a collection size cut to 10 megabytes.

This option is perfect for backing up DV to DVD’s as 2 Gb is around the maximum file size that (the current) linux imple-mentation of the ISO9660 ilesystem can handle!

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