Anyone know how to load DV from a Movie Camera over Firewire

[Alan Dayley]

I have always used Kino and the interface to dvgrab and other tools in my
acquisition of video from my camera.  I have not seen driver problems like
you are describing.  And yes, that does look like a driver problem to me.

I was always on 32-bit Linux.  It appears you are using 64-bit.  Are there
any problems with this difference?

Sorry, but at the moment I am out of ideas for you.

Alan

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

> I have been trying to get dvgrab to work with my setup and I can't seem to
> get it to grab the video from my camera over firewire. It starts the camera
> says it is grabbing video, but never writes a file with the video to my hard
> disk. Running dvgrab as a normal user occaisionally gives me a segmentation
> fault. Even running it as root does not create an output file.
>
> A typical run:
> orca:/home/mark/Movies/Savage/clips# dvgrab -f dv2 foo-
> Found AV/C device with GUID 0x0800460102561c47
> Waiting for DV...
>
> "": damaged frame near: timecode ??:??:??.?? date ????.??.?? ??:??:??
> This means that there were missing or invalid FireWire packets.
>
> ......quite a few of these as the camera starts and comes up to speed. Once
> the camera is up to speed, they stop. I assume (perhaps incorrectly?) that
> these are just due to the camera motor coming up to speed. After running for
> a minute and no error messages I hit ctrl-C and get this:
>
> ^C"":     0.00 MiB 0 frames timecode 00:00:00.00 date 2010.12.05 09:10:52
> Capture Stopped
> Warning: 151 damaged frames.
>
> I am running Debian testing amd64.
>
> Google gave me this tip:
> http://mylinuxramblings.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/grabbing-dv-from-a-video-camera-using-dvgrab-kdenlive/and followed those simple instructions. Still noo ouput file. Is the
> addition of the file raw1394.rules with the contents (*KERNEL==”raw1394″,
> GROUP=”video”*) to /etc/udev/rules.d necessary?
>
> I am trying to use Lives to edit the videos, but I can't even get past the
> command line usage of dvgrab!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
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