On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 08:29, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On 24 May 2002 08:17:24 -0500 > "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What device are you looking to use? I frequently use a firewire > > > connection to my DV8 camcorder to pull video from it. > > > > What brand of firewire card do you have? Also, does it matter > > which brand/model of DV8 camcorder one has? > > The card is an el-cheapo but uses the Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 chipset > as shown here: > > FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 OHCI Compliant > IEEE-1394 Controller (rev 0). > > I bought the card just to see if I could get things working. Lucky me, I > got what appears to be a decent and supported chipset.
Many thanks. What's the card's brand name and company, so I can go get one? > I'm not absolutely certain that the brand of camcorder matters. I > mistyped the type of camcorder, it's actually a MiniDV (my bad). It's one > of Sony's DCR series (don't have it in front of me). > > Once the appropriate firewire modules have been loaded, I normally use > either dvgrab or kino to pull video from the device. Dvgrab is a great > command line tool, but doesn't offer the ability to start or stop the play > back of the device. It simply grabs what the device is playing. Kino is > a graphical tool with similiar grabbing capabilities to dvgrab, but with > the addition of being able to remotely control my camcorder. Are you using the dvgrab & kino from woody? -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "I have created a government of whirled peas..." | | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, | ! CNN, Larry King Live | +---------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
