From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 09:53:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F35916A46D for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:53:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dino_vliet@yahoo.com) Received: from web51105.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web51105.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03E3A13C455 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:53:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dino_vliet@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 71282 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Jul 2007 09:26:30 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=wc/Exj/M6uXArueAv2cNNncGpiwwWXJYLf8q6UF6A0X6mA4XbIR+XTVvm7QxIbAaPSSjBCAwXTxWWg8bGxUcuuBXMb0V2LQ5pSNIPGV3Zl0cyk8IyXYKJoDPnI1cu+V4VkCcBnNNtcUOEWk2xZ0vEL/Sy2xgzo9cuPQdmS18VQI=; X-YMail-OSG: QrRccVQVM1lusPjA2EMIoGd0K4uzcceoyNyxC7hIZFaHsIgOkzN9y9qv2fmDD7QEATXPTh77bw6YoGtOA3tOCWvqslvFLiGjdhJWJjQhgACBc1jXTDx9DDPgpMM0f_TBxwzWqu99vubn14_vuHZyofeyeA-- Received: from [167.202.221.228] by web51105.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:26:30 PDT Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:26:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Dino Vliet To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ports@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <247876.66176.qm@web51105.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: gdvrecv produces very BIG FILES X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:53:12 -0000 Dear all, I managed to connect my new canon mini dv camera to my firewire port on my freebsd amd64 machine and used gdvrecv to transfer the first 2 minutes of my first recording (did I mention I really like FreeBSD and I'm so glad it's possible t do this first step:-) However, this 2 minutes recording produced a dv file of +/512MB in size. I have a 60 minute casette so in theorie I would get a 15GB dv file? Right? Is that normal, to have this big sized files as a result? ps Unfortunately Kino didn't compile sucessfully on my FreeBSD box, so I had to revert to my Linux partition and process the file there (I already asked the port maintainer of Kino what I could do to get it working on my amd64 system_ --------------------------------- Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV.