Re: video devices on firewire, anyone?
On 24 May 2002 08:17:24 -0500
"Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > What device are you looking to use? I frequently use a firewire
> > connection to my DV8 camcorder to pull video from it.
>
> What brand of firewire card do you have? Also, does it matter
> which brand/model of DV8 camcorder one has?
The card is an el-cheapo but uses the Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 chipset
as shown here:
FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 OHCI Compliant
IEEE-1394 Controller (rev 0).
I bought the card just to see if I could get things working. Lucky me, I
got what appears to be a decent and supported chipset.
I'm not absolutely certain that the brand of camcorder matters. I
mistyped the type of camcorder, it's actually a MiniDV (my bad). It's one
of Sony's DCR series (don't have it in front of me).
Once the appropriate firewire modules have been loaded, I normally use
either dvgrab or kino to pull video from the device. Dvgrab is a great
command line tool, but doesn't offer the ability to start or stop the play
back of the device. It simply grabs what the device is playing. Kino is
a graphical tool with similiar grabbing capabilities to dvgrab, but with
the addition of being able to remotely control my camcorder.
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Jamin W. Collins
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