Sorry, Mark. I have the configuration working on my Linux box and have not touched it in over a year. I am not aware of recent kernel or driver changes. I know and feel your frustration. I've been through similar DV issues before. :-| Alan On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > 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 wrote: > >> >> >> 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 < >>> mark@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 >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> 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 >>> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >