Re: video devices on firewire, anyone?
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 08:29, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> 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.
Many thanks. What's the card's brand name and company, so
I can go get one?
> 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.
Are you using the dvgrab & kino from woody?
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