Can dvgrab '-rewind' work without a capture to rewind tape after successful dvgrab?

david <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:14:36 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.kino.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Guys,

   First post - simple dvgrab question. (sorry if you get 2 copies, the first 
was rejected by kino-dev-owner?) I have many digital 8 tapes to download. I am 
writing a short script that will loop prompting for tape insert at the at the 
end of each successful dvgrab. What I would like to do "rewind" the tape "after" 
each dvgrab so the tape is left fully rewound. Is this possible without dvgrab 
starting to download from the tape again using default capture values?  I was 
thinking something like:

while :; do

   [[ ${answer:0:1} == n ]] || break

   if dvgrab -rewind -timestamp -autosplit=3600 -format raw ${VLOC}/${FNAME}; then

     ## Can I Rewind Here without another capture starting??
->  dvgrab -rewind  (looks like this will restart capture with defaults)

     ## prompt for next or exit
     echo -ne "  Press: 'n' to process another tape, any other key to quit: "
     read answer
     echo ""

   fi

done

   Currently, I find the -rewind option that says

"-rewind              completely rewind the tape prior to capture"

   What I want is something like:

"-rewind_done         completely rewind the tape AFTER successful capture"

   Anything like that exist or would that be a new addition to the code? If it 
would be new, where in the code would be the best place to look to include this 
functionality?  Looks like it would need to be an addition of 'm_isRewindLast' 
called from stopCapture() or cleanup() in dvgrab.cc, but I would appreciate any 
help in figuring out how to implement it.

   Thanks for any help you can give and I apologize of this has been previously 
answered somewhere.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.

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