My dad has an old Panasonic MiniDV camcorder and wanted to import old tapes into his cutting tool on Windows 10. After hooking up the camcorder via Firewire, the import dialog showed the time code of the running tape, but instead of the video, the preview was black and there was no audio. To make… Read More »
You can use any of the 4 BlackMagic processors by specifying DeckLink SDI (1) … DeckLink SDI (4). The number after the @ is the port. This example streams the signal on port @3 in 2 different formats to different ports on 10.24.141.132. More info on StackOverflow.
Concat Transport Stream Copy recording from the TSD drive to a FAT32 USB HDD. ⚠️ Target drive needs to support large files >4GB Convert to MKV If avconv aborts because of incomplete frames, use -ss and -t to seek a few seconds into the stream and stop a few seconds before the end. Rip recordings… Read More »
On a Windows 7 64bit, I was not able to capture any DV video from a video camera connected via Firewire IEEE1394. I was able to control the camera from the capture program (tried NeroVision and magix Video Deluxe) but only got a black screen and no audio. After a little search, I found this… Read More »
To merge multiple (similar) video files into one big file, there are different ways. avimerge This only works with avi files. avimerge is part of the transcode-utils package. If the sound doesn’t match from the second file on, use the -c switch. mencoder This should also work with mpg videos. Install the mencoder package.
If you can’t aquire any video from a DV camera connected via Firewire/IEEE1394, check if you have these symptoms: The reason seems to be a faulty IEEE1394 driver in Windows 7 64-bit. Check the Device Manager whether you have the Texas Instruments 1394 Controller installed. If so, right-click and choose Update driver…, search your computer… Read More »
The Sansa is very picky about what file to play and what not. The demo video has the following format: Encoding According to this post the Any Video Converter should be able to convert videos for the FUZE. The Settings are: