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

[Mark Phillips]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Alan Dayley <adayley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

I just installed from the Debian repositories so I am not aware of any
issues. I have a chroot lenny 32 bit installed, so perhaps I could try that.
Just the command line dvgrab, and then move the files over to 64 bit land.

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

So am I! ;-)

>
> 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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