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

[Mark Phillips]

Well, the chroot lenny install was not able to access the firewire hardware.
I tried a vm player version of lenny, and vmware is not able to access
firewire. So, I am back to my amd64 machine trying to get the video off my
camera.

I see that raw1394 have been replaced in newer kernals. Some posts say it
should not matter, and others disagree. Do you know of ither ways to grab DV
from a camera? Google has not helped much in that regard.

Thanks,

Mark

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

>
>
> 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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