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
<
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>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 <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>>
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