Zitiere Andres Cabrera andres@geminiflux.com:

Hi, I'm trying to get my DV camera to get video into gem, but the camera is not being recognized (not only by gem, but the same behavior appears in kino and coriander). The strange thing is that dvgrab captures movies alright... and I remember having used this camera on the same hardware (but FC1) some time ago (I'm on FC2 Planet CCRMA now). I am using a PCMCIA firewire bridge, which works perfectly with an external hard drive So the question is: How can I tell which device my dv camera is? (I have a feeling the problem lies with the device name) Are there any known quirks to get a dv camera to work on FC2?

Gem does support firewire-cameras.

thinks you should consider:

are you using devfs ? if not, you will have to create the device-nodes by hand; i have no experience with udev are you using a recent kernel (this is 2.6) ? you should have a video-device for your camera at "/dev/ieee1394/dv/host<i>/[PAL,NTSC]/in" (with <i> denoting "the" host-number) if this doesn't exist you will need to load the correct modules (which if have forgotten rigth now: most probably it is video1394 or dv1394) as a fallback, Gem will also query "/dev/dv1394"

finally, an important thing to know is, that firewire-devices are *not* recognized by the video4linux (no matter whether v4l or v4l2) system (well, there are few (i think: one(!)) exceptions) you have to tell Gem that it should look for a ieee1394-device, by sending a [driver 1( message to the [pix_video] object. (fyi: "driver 0" is v4l; this is only important on linux; on osX and on windows, it doesn't matter whether the capture device is a dv-device or just a tuner-board)

even more finally, i had a laptop with an onboard ieee1394-controller which could perfectly well handle external harddisk, but had no cue about dv-cameras (tested on both debian-gnu/linux and windoze) however, if dvgrab works, you are most probably lucky...

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