[FFmpeg-devel] unrecognized option '-dv1394'

[Benoit Fouet]

Jay Thompson wrote:
> Hi everyone... I see this is the development list so I hope this noob  
> question is not out of place.

it is...
try ffmpeg-user instead

>  I would really like to grab directly  
> from my dv camcorder and, as I understand it, this should be  
> achievable. I built ffmpeg-checkout-2007-08-04 on Ububtu Studio and  
> thought I had done this correctly. whenever I try '$ ffmpeg - 
> dv1394 ...' (in the many ways I found suggested on the net) I get  
> 'ffmpeg: unrecognized option -dv1394' returned. What I am trying to  
> do is to grab from my camera with ffmpeg and output to yuv4mpeg so I  
> can access the the video feed in gephex and others. As I said, I  
> thought I had built it correctly to use dv1394 but don't know enough  
> to know if I really did. Perhaps the way I'm trying to access the  
> camera is incorrect. I appreciate any advice that can be offered.
>   

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