Quoting Georg Holzmann grhPD@gmx.at:

Hallo!

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Except that pix_video still doesn't work with udev: /dev/dv1394/0

I have tried changing to [driver 1< when rendering was enabled and this crashed PD. I tried [driver 1< before rendering and PD didn't crash but I didn't get video. With [device /dev/dv1394/0< I got the following message: device-err: 0 DV4L: closed

hm ... I thought that this works ... (but never tried it) ...

anyway, you can change the following in videoDV4L.cpp (I think line 194):

 if ((fd=open("/dev/dv1394", O_RDWR)) < 0)    {

to: if ((fd=open("/dev/dv1394/0", O_RDWR)) < 0) {

and then recompile ...

I tried this with FC4 and again just now with FC5 and I get the following message in both cases: GEM: Graphics Environment for Multimedia GEM: ver: 0.90 GEM: compiled: May 27 2006 GEM: maintained by IOhannes m zmoelnig GEM: Authors : Mark Danks (original version on irix/windows) GEM: Chris Clepper (macOS-X) GEM: Daniel Heckenberg (windows) GEM: James Tittle (macOS-X) GEM: IOhannes m zmoelnig (linux/windows) GEM: using SSE2 optimization

When I open 00.SimpleVideo I see: video driver 0: video4linux video driver 1: ieee1394 for linux

And then when I send pix_video the [driver 1< message I see: DV4L: closed

Is there a way to run all these operations in a more verbose mode so I/we can see what is actually failing?

For example is Gem failing to open the stream, or does Gem open the stream and then encounter a format problem? Maybe file permissions are what is causing the problem?

What should I try next?

Thanks again for the help! -thewade