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I bought a Firewire card and cable so that I can capture the video from my new samsung camcorder. I cannot seem to get it working properly. The camera is a Samsung SC-D353. I am trying to get Kino set up properly, but I'm not sure of the settings. When I hook the camera up and turn the power on, 'dmesg' returns:
ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0000f0000f5865d9]
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
As far as modules go, here is what is loaded to do with the card:
eth1394
dv1394
raw1394
In kino, if I start is as root, I can get the controls to work, but when I hit caputre, it doesn't capture anything. It just says waiting for DV, and times out. I also tried via CLI using dvgrab, and it says no DV. Anyone have some pointers?
Can anyone help. I know there has got to be more than just me that uses a digital vidio cam with Linux.
cybertron
03-04-2006, 02:45 PM
I've used a DV cam under Linux, but it mostly just worked for me. The only thing I can think of is are you pushing play either on the camera or letting the dvgrab software do it for you? There's some acronym for the connection between dvgrab and the camera that lets dvgrab control it, but I don't remember what it is.:)
I don't think I ever got Kino to capture for me - I think I had to use dvgrab from the command-line. Mind you I haven't done that much with this. I borrowed a DV cam a couple of times and captured the video to my computer, and I was surprised how easily it worked for me so I don't know much in the way of troubleshooting.
OK, thanks for the insight. I'll give dvgrab another shot.
mrBen
03-06-2006, 08:12 AM
I used Kino to grab video - the only problem I had (and this was 2 years ago now) was that if I set the frame buffer too high Kino would hang on me, IIRC.
Install the ohci1394 too - I have it; it might help ;)
Pafnoutios
03-06-2006, 04:31 PM
I've been transferring some of my home videos to my computer lately. I've been using Kino. It only works for me when my camera is on AC power, not on battery, and when it is set to "play" mode. My AVC controls work. I don't know if I could use it in record mode or not.
Does that help, or were you already doing that?
Otherwise, it pretty much "just worked" for me, too. I have all of my IEEE1394 modules compiled in.
I thought I would update this for others having problems. I finally got around to troubleshooting it. The fix was to remove the module eth1394. It was not needed so I just did rmmod eth1394. The symptoms where the controlls worked, but there wasn't any preview, and it would just say waiting for DV. It works now!
Also the Debian packages for Kino seem to have issues. If you used apt-get to install kino and it keeps crashing, compile it from source. Good luck!