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Re: Impossible to grab video from camcorder on Debian???



El Jueves, 25 de Enero de 2007 22:58, Jay Zach escribió:
> 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 :)

My cam is a sony DCR-TRV380 and I connect to my integrated firewire port and 
use dvgrab (was part of Kino) ... the result is terrific. Probe with dvgrab

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