[FFmpeg-user] How to Access Sony HDV camera using FFMPEG Source

[Lou]

On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 02:17:57 -0700 (PDT)
"itnarayanan at gmail.com" <itnarayanan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi friends
> 
>  Any one say how  to Access Sony HDV camera using FFMPEG Source
> 
> Regards
> 
> Narayanasamy.S

One method is to use dvgrab to capture from the HDV camera. You can
either capture the video to a file and then process it with FFmpeg, or
perhaps you can pipe from dvgrab directly to FFmpeg and avoid the
intermediate file. Untested, overly simplistic example:

dvgrab -f hdv -size 0 - | ffmpeg ...