It didn’t take long for me to stumble across a command line tool called dvgrab. I had no luck in finding anything with a nice GUI, so I was left with the good old command line!
The camcorder does have the ability to playback the tapes via composite output, but firewire is fully digital and thus would give me the best possible quality.Īfter loading Ubuntu Linux onto the PC, I searched for an application that could pull the footage from the camcorder. A quick check confirmed that the firewire card would not fit into my regular PC, so hanging on to this old PC for a while longer was my best chance of getting the footage off the old mini dv tapes. I was looking to recycle an old, unused PC that was also in the loft when it occurred to me that the old PC had a firewire card installed. While tidying the loft I came across my old JVC Mini DV Camcorder that I purchased in about 2001.
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