{"id":452,"date":"2006-12-02T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T15:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/02\/video-cameras-and-linux-redux-canon-mv920"},"modified":"2006-12-03T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T13:07:07","slug":"video-cameras-and-linux-redux-canon-mv920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/02\/video-cameras-and-linux-redux-canon-mv920","title":{"rendered":"Video cameras and Linux Redux – Canon MV920"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, I purchased a video camera. I bought it about five minutes before attending a wedding (that I was shooting photographs for – the couple are very close friends of mine), and the sales lady herself was amazed at our “last minuteness”. In all fairness, I was only told that they weren’t having any video for their wedding about an hour before the wedding, so I needed some time to do some Google research.<\/p>\n

I purchased a Canon MV920 Mini DV video camera. Its cheap (even cheaper now that there’s a $75 rebate that I just found out about), has support for an external microphone, uses the same batteries that I use for my DSLR, and its really small and light. My deal was sweetened with free DV tapes thrown in, as well as a Firewire cable (6-pin; I use the 4-pin iPod converter when connecting to my Thinkpad).<\/p>\n

I’m pleased to announce that it “just works”<\/em> with Linux. Just install dvgrab<\/code> (its in Core – yum install dvgrab<\/code>), and simply run dvgrab<\/code> on the command line. A little while later, stop it, and open up the file which plays nicely in Totem. 200MB for about 1 minute of video.<\/p>\n

As its December, and I plan on quite a bit of travel, I guess it only makes sense that I’ll be using more of the video camera, and writing about how funky Linux is with it :-)
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