Solved HDV/MiniDV capture in FreeBsD?

I have a dedicated fairly low spec machine (Core 2 1.8ghz, 4GB ram) for video capture from tape and I have windows on it. Unfortunately Windows 10 is ridiculously slow on this machine and I am wondering if this is possible in FreeBSD. I am planning to capture both HDV and MiniDV.
Thanks
 
Yes it is. Editors are very sparse though. kdenlive is my fav. Let us know how HDV works. I am using a DSR-20 with DV.
 
I've used kdenlive before and liked it very much. Thanks for this! I'll install FreeBSD on this machine and try it out.
 
There was the ability to capture video directly from kdenlive.
It was removed upstream when they switched from kde4 to Plasma.
I went back through the old versions of Ubuntu Studio to test it out.

Just to be clear I am using multimedia/gdvrecv to capture under FreeBSD Xorg.
You must enable firewire in /boot/loader.conf as well.
firewire_load="YES"
 
There was the ability to capture video directly from kdenlive.
It was removed upstream when they switched from kde4 to Plasma.
I went back through the old versions of Ubuntu Studio to test it out.

Just to be clear I am using multimedia/gdvrecv to capture under FreeBSD Xorg.
You must enable firewire in /boot/loader.conf as well.
firewire_load="YES"

Right. Almost forgot about loading the kernel driver.
 
There was the ability to capture video directly from kdenlive.
It was removed upstream when they switched from kde4 to Plasma.
I went back through the old versions of Ubuntu Studio to test it out.

Just to be clear I am using multimedia/gdvrecv to capture under FreeBSD Xorg.
You must enable firewire in /boot/loader.conf as well.
firewire_load="YES"
I have firewire_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf. I could simply need a new firewire adapter. I've tried my current one on a version of Linux and the camera isn't recognized on that system either. I suspent the adapter has simply gone bad. Some things I read in post made me wonder if it is still supported but it's good to hear that it is still supported. I have already ordered a new adapter.

I did do a pkg search for gdvrecv and nothing showed on the command line. I typed: pkg search gdvrecv. Is this only available as source?
 
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