On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Michael A. Petersmpeters@mac.com wrote:
I am being given a digital camcorder.
It uses Mini DV tapes and either connects via typical RCA cables (IE to a tv) or via FireWire. I don't have the brand on hand, but I was told it can be ripped to DV like any standard FireWire camcorder (I believe dvgrab will be sufficient).
I just installed an older FireWire card I have that I used at one point in Fedora for my iPod. It was a PITA back then because sometimes an update to Fedora would break the kernel module, so I ended up just using USB. That was some time ago.
I scrapped that computer but kept the cards, and have now installed the card in my current computer in hopes that I will be able to go from the camera to HD in preparation for editing / transcoding (to theora) for the web.
lspci reports the following info:
01:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link)
What is the current state of FireWire in CentOS ?
You can collect some info about the firewire support in Fedora:
http://www.kinodv.org/article/view/162/1/13/
If the current firewire kernel driver in CentOS does not work for you, take a look at:
http://blog.toracat.org/2008/12/getting-kino-to-work-on-centos-5/
that I wrote some time ago when I tried to get my camcorder to work.
Hope this helps,
Akemi