Hi,
I have a digital video camera with a firewire port, and my laptop is equiped
with one, as well. The port of the laptop is supported under Linux (we
discussed this one about 8-9 months ago on list), and the modules load
properly.
I tried to use dvgrab to capture a movie I made, but had no success. I did
take care to first load the raw1394 module (otherwise dvgrab issues error
messages), and started dvgrab as root (since root wons the requisite device
file), but dvgrab remains silent. I played with the options, including
options suggested by the man page, to no avail.
Since I recall that in the RH7.3 days I managed to capture some video with
dvgrab and the very same hardware, I decided to test the hardware using my
dedicated hardware testing platform (windoze millenium), and everything
worked (except for the software, which, since it uses too many cpu cycles for
the gui and displaying the image as it records, could not record all frames
on disk... Millenium headache. Wait, it is Sony software supposedly made for
that laptop, and it finds the machine it was supposedly tweaked for too
slow?!).
So now, why doesn't dvgrab work? If it doesn't work, why doesn't it complain
using some error message? Ergo, it theoretically works, but something is
wrong. Help.
BTW, I alreadyt tried fiddling with the cables.
I am now using RH8.0.
Arie Folger
--
It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man
who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as
he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable.
-- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics
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