[olug] DVD Camcorder and Linux

[Adam Lassek]

Those Mini-DVDs are a bad idea, unlike the commercials they are NOT as
simple at recording video and popping the thing into a DVD player. If
you want to easily import video to a computer in a completely digital
solution, DV is probably your best bet.

On 3/26/06, Daniel Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
>
> I have a 5 year old Sony Handycam that uses "Digital8" tapes and
> it works well. The taped are about $8 each and hold about 30-45
> minutes. It has a firewire port (Sony calls it iLink I think) and I
> have used it with both Windows XP and Linux and it works well.
>
>
>
> If I were in the market today I'd look at the camcorders that write
> directly to the 3" DVDs. I don't trust tapes over a few years
> and at least the DVD would be readable by a computer if/when the camera
> dies.
>
>
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> On Sat, March 25, 2006 23:41, Robert Alan Jacobs wrote:
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> > Okay, so I've found myself in the market for a DVD Camcorder - I'm
> kind
>
> > of rushed and I need to make a purchase decision in the next few
> days
>
> > and I've only just begun looking.
>
> >
>
> > On the recommendation of the sales guy at NFM, I'm checking out the
>
> > reviews and such at http://www.camcorderinfo.com.  It is here that I
> read:
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> >
>
> >       "Many camcorders, however, format their footage so that it
>
> >       cannot be directly imported onto a computer."
>
> >
>
> > Well...that sucks.
>
> >
>
> > Anyone own a DVD camcorder that you have been able to interface
>
> > successfully with Linux?  Basically, I want to be able to get the
>
> > footage off the camera, *maybe* edit it (not a priority at this
> time)
>
> > and then burn it to DVDs (probably DVD-R) that will play in most
>
> > DVD players.
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> >
>
> > Thanks for any help or insight....
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> >
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> >
>
> > -raj
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