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.

Once again, my proprietary OS gave up the ghost, stuck it's legs up in the air and died. Now what? The fear of leaving Pinnacle Studio for a Linux solution put fear and dread in my heart. However, I found that most of my fears were unfounded.

smilutils 0.3.0 features a bunch of new utilities for video fx, fullscreen DV playback (supporting all of kino's file formats and DV pipes) and even a utility to transcode DivX, mpeg and many otler formats to Raw DV.

dvgrab 1.3 is a another major update with new features including AV/C interactive mode, automatic detection of camera on any 1394 card, rawdv on stdin, .dif rawdv support, and capture duration option.

Thomson VMD 130 works great with Linux !

After I have seen reports on a new very cool design featuring the new Mini-ITX main boards from VIA Technologies Inc., I decided to try this one. It has on-board firewire too, besides the usual interfaces, so it should make a decent DV/MPEG/MP3 player/ripper/copier.

I just have managed to configure my system to grab the videos from the Digital8 camera and convert them to MPEG.

In keeping with tradition, it's been a long time since I've released a new version of smilutils :-).

It has been a long time since a new release of dvgrab. Dan Dennedy has been slowly adding the improvements that have been developed for Kino as they matured. This version also adds JPEG output with deinterlacing and scaling options developed upon request for a donation (thanks!).

This version is a bugfix version to critical bugs found in the recent 0.6.3 release. It also adds improvements to AVI writing compatibility, DV (2-pass) encoding, and resampling on WAV import.

Micro MV is a new Sony video format on some of their camcorder models. This article contains information a community of users and developers have gathered to capture this format and make use of it.

The latest version of Kino fixes a number of bugs while improving the user interface and adding support for Quicktime DV files and dv1394.

We have set up a PayPal account. If you like the Kino or dvgrab software, consider donating to the Kino Developer Team. This article explains our Donation Policy.

Knoppix is a new Linux distribution (based on Debian 3.0) that includes the ieee1394 device drivers and dvgrab.

It is a Live CD: insert the CD, reboot and you have a fully working Linux system, with no changes to the existing hardware or disk drives. This is a great way to demonstrate Linux (and dvgrab) to friends, without the hassle of actually installing Linux on their machines.

In order to provide a more immediate support and discussion forum for those that want it, we are pleased to announce the official kino IRC channel can be found on irc.gnome.org #kino.

I have adapted the avi2pics program, which was available on the old Kino website, to work with the latest libdv release. This release now works with Debian 3.0.