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 -- Linux User Registered #232544 Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ekiga : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 337889406 GnuPG-key : www.keyserver.net ----------------------------------------------- dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.