btw. if you want to download an avistream from your cam use dvgrab its a
comandline tool you use it like : dvgrab test.avi
and it will save the actual playing stream into the file test.avi nice tool
but you dont see whats comming you can only whatch the resulting file with an
apropriate movie player.
The problem is actually not the support of the dv or firewire hardware (like
in windows lol it took me ages to get firewire working with my sonycam under
windows win98 doesnt work at all win2k works sluggish with almmost allthetime
hardware related crashes etc. finally win98SE worked )
no the problem with linux and firewire is the lack of good capturing and
editing software sad to say. But many devellopers work a lot on those pieces
of software and we can hope for the near future that good and capable
software comes out into public.
Cheers
On Monday 23 July 2001 22:19, Kernell32 wrote:
> Hi i have a firewire card and a sony cam now sony cams are a little more
> complicated cause they use different encoding (i think) but i got them
> working now you need to install libraw and i recommend gscanbus to have an
> eye on your firewire filesystems etc libraw is available from the rpms dir
> on the mandrake ftp servers.
> But i have to say that they didnt really work for me rather install from
> tar !
>
> here are some links :
>
> http://ronald.bitfreak.net/
> http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/
>
> if you hav ethe tars of libraw they will compile into /usr/local you might
> get some problems with your paths (root doesnt have /usr/local in the path
> for some reason)
>
> here are quick instrucktions how to get libraw and your raw device working
> if youre impatient but i recommend reading through the links that i gave
> you cause you have to be prepared for some manuall changes and hacks.
> gscanbus http://www.ivistar.de/0500opensource.php3?lang=en is a really nice
> prog where you can control the devices on your firewire ports install that
> one from tar it will also compile into /usr/local so it will work fine
> together with the libraw tar.
>
> here quick instructions for libraw without this nothing will work
>
> Compile libraw1394:
> cd /where/you/downloaded/libraw1394
> tar xvfz libraw1394_0.9.0.tar.gz
> cd libraw1394-0.9.0
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> Create the raw device (/dev/raw1394):
> make dev
> Reboot:
> shutdown -r now
> After the system reboots, logon and load the modules:
> modprobe ohci1394
> modprobe raw1394
>
> Module dependencies should ensure that the ieee1394 subsytem module
> installs automatically. If you receive errors about unresolved symbols,
> then try the following:
> insmod ieee1394
> insmod ohci1394M
> insmod raw1394
>
> if it works nicely you can add
> modprobe ohci1394
> modprobe raw1394
> to your /etc/rc.local file so they will load at each boot
>
> If you decide to use the rpms from mandrake and if you have success with
> that tell me how you did it =) with me the rpm version didnt make the
> device if i remember right and the modules should be loaded manually the
> rpm installed but didnt create the device and didnt load the modules i dont
> know why so i gave up and installed the tar (or did i install the tar first
> and create the device manually ? i dont remember =))
> Anyway happy hacking and dont forget to tell about your sucess this is a
> rather new unwritten chapter of mandrake hacking =) .
> Cheers
>
> On Saturday 21 July 2001 20:30, =/\\= Majki =/\\= wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I have miniDV digital camera Panasonic NV-DS15. I'd like to download film
> > or photos to computer. Camera has i-link FireWire connector, and I have
> > FireWire controller. In Windows Me I can just plug cable to controller,
> > switch on camera, and Windows automatically shows camera in My Computer
> > and I can take photo from camera. I have also program to editing films
> > downloaded from camera, this program were included in FireWire
> > Controller. Is it possible to do the same in Linux ?
> >
> > Mikolaj
