On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Alan Dayley <
adayley@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@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
(text/plain)