DVGrabGUI 0.9.4

This is the main window, where you can see the dv stream, and start/stop capture…

The "Video" window
This is the main window, where you start/stop the dv capture, and control what you are recording.
The "Settings" windows
This is where you adjust (nearly) all settings about the capture & GUI.
Window divided in three sub-tabs: Capture, Hardware, and GUI.
The "Logs" window
This window display all messages sent by DVGrabGUI (or the underlying wxWidgets!)
Note that these messages are also written in a log file (~/.dvgrabgui/dvgrabgui.log). Please send them with any bug report!
The "Help" window
Show this window!
Note that this tab is only available with wxWidgets 2.8; with wxWidgets 2.6, the help shows up in a separate frame…

Video display
This window shows the dv stream when capture thread's running.
It allows you to start/stop capture thread (left-clicking left half window), and…
It allows you to start/stop capture (left-clicking right half window).
Status bar
- First area: This is the "general info" area (menu entries help, …).
- Second area: This gives you the capture thread status.
- Third area: This says you whether the mouse is captured or not.
- Fourth area: This gives you the capture status (recording or paused).

Standby/Stop button
Toggle button to start/stop capture thread (same as left half of video window).
Record/Pause button
Toggle button to start/stop dv recording (same as right half of video window – disabled when capture thread's not running!).
"Video file prefix" text area
Enter here the prefix you want all your video files captured to have (e.g. capt- will give files like capt-0001.avi, capt-0002.avi, etc.)
Note that you have more options about file names in the settings window.
"Misc info" text area
This static text gives you "hardware" infos: frames received/captured/dropped during capture, Port/Node/Channel/GUID of the established dv connection, and dv-reported camera status…
Disk Space
This area gives you info about total/remaining disk space (for the mount point of the directory where you chose to store your captured video files).