README

dvgrab (C) 2000-2004 Arne Schirmacher dvgrab@schirmacher.de (C) 2002-2026 Dan Dennedy dan@dennedy.org (C) 2007 Dan Streetman ddstreet@ieee.org

dvgrab website: https://github.com/ddennedy/dvgrab

To use the program, turn on the camera, press play, and run the program:

dvgrab --frames 200 myfilm-

If you have properly configured your kernel and your ieee1394 device drivers, you should end up with about 30 MByte of DV image data nicely packed in a file myfilm-001.avi (digits and extension automatically appended), which can be displayed with the Microsoft Media Player or a similar program (remember to install the required DV codecs, software should be included with your hardware).

Read the man page for more documentation or 'dvgrab --help'. Please submit bug reports, fixes, or suggestions to https://github.com/ddennedy/dvgrab Be sure to read the NEWS file for very helpful release notes.