On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Alan Dayley 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 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >