Re: Impossible to grab video from camcorder on Debian???
On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:56, LMa wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I habe been a plain user of Linux for over one a half year, sporting
> Debian 3.1, now with Kernel 2.6.8, KDE 3.3 on a Pentium PC, and I'm very
> satisfied.
>
> I also have a FireWire card by VIA Technologies (OHCI compatible).
>
>
> What brings me to the forum is that I absolutely can't grab video from
> my camcorder with my FireWire card.
>
> No connection, no gscanbus working, nothing...
>
> I read lots of documentation and information on forums (Lea-Linux,
> Linux.fr) or found with the help of yahoogle (ABUL, Funix, Dardenne,
> etc.) but got none the wiser for it...
>
>
> However, I realised that as nothing else was making a problem (FireWire
> card was recognised, ohci1394 , ieee1394 , eth1394 modules automatically
> loaded, and modprobe raw1394 and video1394 worked out alright –
> confirmed by lsmod grep 1394), it had to be something else.
>
> So since I'd read of « /dev/video(?) » and « /dev/raw(1394) » files, I
> went to the « /dev » path, and found that nothing of that sort was in
> there...
>
>
> So doctors: what's the cure?
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> ludo
Here's the answer I found on this list long ago for my Video camera, weird but
works:
'rmmod eth1394'
Hope it helps you too :)
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