You might be surprised to find two new versions of dvgrab released at the same time! Well, 1.8 is the last bugfix release of the current major release, and 2.0 is the next generation release that requires a new library not everyone is ready to install.

This is a bugfix release. It fixes a hanging bug when trying to stop capture due to blocking I/O calls on 1394. These were moved to non-blocking I/O. Also, you should be able to accurately capture 1 number of frame using "--duration smpte=:::1".
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* New icons and About dialog image - thanks Andreas Nilsson!
* Added dual pass output in Export/DV Pipe.
* Addded a dual pass FFMPEG DVD export script.
* Bugfixes and type 2 AVI performance improvement.
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This release adds French, Czech, and Spanish translations. Besides the addition of a ffmpeg2theora script, there are also bug fixes and minor user interface refinements.

The new ffmpeg2theora utility makes it easy.

This release fixes new critical bugs introduce in 0.7.2 as well as some old ones while fixing up the desktop entry file and adding an application icon. Get it now.

Today I released new versions of both dvgrab and Kino. There are mainly bugfixes with only a few new features. Follow "Read more" for release notes.

Varsha is a DVD authoring tool for Linux. It is written in Java. It uses already available command line programs such as dvdauthor, dvd+rw-tools, mkisofs to do various things in background. It is still in early stages of development but is usable in general.
See http://varsha.sourceforge.net/ for more information.

Major new features include metadata editing, 3 point insert editing, some dvdauthor integration, mouse wheel support, and numerous user interface enhancements.

The first High Definition Disk Drive Recorder running on Linux in which the clients receive the source code. (From the editor: This is not directly related to Kino or dvgrab, but the article was submitted, and we like these guys.)

I just wanted to share my happiness with everyone! I managed to get my Panasonic MX500 to work with my Gentoo Box, and i must say it works like charm!

Pan and zoom your stills to make dv files with stills2dv

This release fixes bugs in AVI writing, the --every option, and when using camera mode. Also, --autosplit is enhanced.

Using DV Pipe mechanism you can adjust the parameters for your preferred export format and save them for later convenient use from inside Kino. I will show you what I did to export a movie into DivX with custom bit-rate and crop band size values.

[Ed. This was submitted in May 2003, but it was overlooked, so I wanted to post this since the user has such an enthusiastic success story. :-) ]
Red Hat 9 - JVC GR-DV3000U, Pyro ADS firewire card

This release fixes bugs in AVI writing, the --every option, and when the camera is in camera mode. Plus, --autosplit is enhanced.

Finally, the GTK2 (GNOME2) port of Kino has arrived! It was not a simple, straight port. We tried to make nice improvements to the GUI overall. Plus, there is a new feature, a scriptable Export/DV Pipe.

This is a bugfix release and might be the last GNOME1 release before upcoming potentially less stable GNOME2 releases.

This is a bugfix release to the new features in dvgrab 1.3 plus a new option to select a device if more than one DV device is available.