ieee1394

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: ieee1394
started by: gatherer

Posted by gatherer on May 11 2006,14:50

Does DSL support ieee1394 firewire cards?

I'd like to install some software to grab video from my DV camcorder however I'm having trouble figuring out if this is built into the kernal.

Posted by cbagger01 on May 11 2006,17:32

There are ieee1394 driver modules available for the DSL kernel.

If you have a "normal" firewire card (example: OHCI compliant) it should be detected and work fine, but you will need to install a dv capturing application in order to use the card.

Posted by gatherer on May 11 2006,17:57

yes I do have a OHCI compliant ieee1394 card.

I guess my question is has anyone used DSL for something like this? If so What application would they recommend.

The ones I have found are over the top of what I need and require way more processing power then I have available

Posted by gatherer on May 12 2006,02:48

Ok I got the lastest libraw1394 library from the site < http://www.linux1394.org > I was able to install it and compile it. however I'm at a point in the instructions where I have to reboot. I know if I do this with it currently sitting on my ramdisk, I'm going to lose it. The lib files are located in the /usr/local/lib directory. how do I ensure these are around when I need them after the reboot? I'm guess I have to remaster the liveCD however I don't know how to create a .dsl file for a library like this.

any help would be great!

Thanks for taking the time to answer my newbie questions,

Jason.

Posted by gatherer on May 14 2006,03:26

ok so I've made more progress so far. I've managed to install all the Debian packages for a program called Kino that is suppose to do DV capture using Firewire.

However I'm getting the following error:

ieee1394io.cc:310: In function "bool IEEE1394Reader::Open()": condition "handle == 0" is true
ieee1394io.cc:310: errno: 19 (No such device)

it would seem that my firewire card is not compatible. so I'll have to pick up new hardware before I continue with this experiment.

unless of course anyone has any Ideas?

the Kino package is painless to install but it has to be done during a remaster. (errors out if I try to do it on the live system.) but once I get this working I'll write a how-to on installing (I used page 50 of the remastering how-to the programming re-master that Meo did, but instead of adding Emacs I added Kino)

regards,

Jason.