After spending few weeks in Taiwan at my family in law's place, I had to transfer some videos I took with my Bro's miniDV video camera. I found very usefull information on how to set up Linux <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg06925.html">here</a>. To make sure these information won't go away, I extracted what I have used from this link and present them below :
As root:
$ cd /dev/
$ ./MAKEDEV raw1394
$ mknod -m 666 /dev/dv1394 c 171 32
$ chmod 666 raw1394
Then add DAG to your yum repository list:
$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo
[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
Then install kino and associated tools:
$ yum install kino
$ yum install dvgrab
Then plug in the card and the cam camcorder, set the camera to the
"play" mode, and load the necessary modules:
$ modprobe ieee1394
$ modprobe ohci1394
$ modprobe raw1394 dv1394
Finally, as a normal user:
$ dvgrab file001
and you should start getting file transfers from the camcorder.
More info is available at the following places:
http://kino.schirmacher.de/
http://www.linux1394.org/
http://www.syba.com/us/en/product/43/05/04/index.html
http://www.linux1394.org/hcl.php?class_id=3
http://www.linux1394.org/hcl.php?class_id=1
