dvgrab segmentation fault 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 x86_64

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 3/7/06, J. K. Cliburn <jcliburn at gmail.com> wrote:
> I used dvgrab for the first time tonight in an attempt to capture
> VHS-C video by passing the feed from a VHS-C camcorder, through a Sony
> DCR-TRV730 DV camcorder, then on to a firewire port.

> During the first attempt, dvgrab seg faulted when the output file was
> 623919668 bytes in size.  Thinking perhaps I'd exceeded some
> mysterious internal size limit, I started over and initiated another
> capture, but this time I set the dvgrab file size limit to 600
> megabytes.  It got quite a bit farther, but seg faulted on the 7th
> file.

Problem solved.  Switched to Power Mac G5 + iMovie.

Thanks,
Jay