Good day everyone,

This question has a wee bit of hardware and software sprinkled in there so I figured the catch all bin would be a good place for it, move it as you see fit!

I am setting up a DV camera on my 2.6.1. system. I have installed an ieee1394 2 port card and it is recognized as a 00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Lucent Microelectronics FW323 (rev 04).

I have installed all relevant drivers (i.e. raw1394, dv1394, etc.) either modularly or embedded in the kernel and have installed succesfully dvgrab, libquicktime components and whatnot. All compiles were eventually successful and gscanbus detects my device. I can even control the Panasonic DV800 camera with dvcont.

Now before I go on, I have to say I have gotten this to work previously on an older system, probably a 2.4.*-patched system if I am not mistaken.

My problem is as follows:

1.) Gnomemeeting detects no valid device on /dev/video0 or /dev/video1.
2.) dvgrab will stream video from the DV camera into xine using "dvgrab -i | xine -D stdin://#demux:rawdv" and show it realtime but when doing a generic "dvgrab"I get nothing but

[user@damage dv]# dvgrab
Capture Started
"": 0.00 MB 0 frames timecode 45:85:85.45 date 1900.01.00 00:00:00
Capture Stopped

with no packets captured.

My dmesg output is as follows when I turn the DV camera on:

ieee1394: Current remote IRM is not 1394a-2000 compliant, resetting...
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00804580b0b810b5]
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023

I am not sure what that is telling me.

My goal is for dvgrab to capture something and write to disc, I can take it from there. *grin*

Thanks everyone!
-Markusman

sounds like permissions.. try finding the dev file that is being used by the capture device ( usually raw 1394) and chmod 666 or 660, or something like that. maybe you have the drivers there but dont have permission to them.