[KaptRoger]

Hi,

Its possible that this problem is not hardware, but it strikes me as being the right place to start.

I wish to pull AV off my camcorder (JVC GR-DVL157E) and store it on my PC (Os 11.1/Gnome 2.24). Google seems to suggest that DVGrab would be my answer.

I have an IEEE1394 card:

lspci |grep 1394
02:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394 Controller

lsmod shows this (I have manually added raw/dv/video):

lsmod |grep 1394
video1394 13988 0
dv1394 15648 0
raw1394 21212 0
ohci1394 27664 2 video1394,dv1394
ieee1394 83756 4 video1394,dv1394,raw1394,ohci1394

But dvgrab complains that there is no camera.


testlibraw reports (with camera detached) :

testlibraw
successfully got handle
current generation number: 1
1 card(s) found
nodes on bus: 1, card name: ohci1394
using first card found: 1 nodes on bus, local ID is 0, IRM is 0

doing transactions with custom tag handler
trying to send read request to node 0... completed with value 0x1ebb1946

using standard tag handler and synchronous calls
trying to read from node 0... completed with value 0xe7e31946

testing FCP monitoring on local node
got fcp command from node 0 of 8 bytes: 01 23 45 67 89 ab cd ef
got fcp response from node 0 of 8 bytes: 01 23 45 67 89 ab cd ef
testing config rom stuff
get_config_rom returned 0, romsize 64, rom_version 4
here are the first 10 quadlets:
0. quadlet: 0xa5ad0404
1. quadlet: 0x34393331
2. quadlet: 0x32a264e0
3. quadlet: 0xe1425000
4. quadlet: 0x7ab74002
5. quadlet: 0xc95c0300
6. quadlet: 0x42500003
7. quadlet: 0x02000081
8. quadlet: 0xc083000c
9. quadlet: 0x2a2c0600
update_config_rom returned 0

polling for leftover messages

With camera attached:

testlibraw
successfully got handle
current generation number: 1
1 card(s) found
nodes on bus: 0, card name: ohci1394
using first card found: 0 nodes on bus, local ID is 0, IRM is 63

doing transactions with custom tag handler

using standard tag handler and synchronous calls

testing FCP monitoring on local node
testing config rom stuff
get_config_rom returned 0, romsize 64, rom_version 5
here are the first 10 quadlets:
0. quadlet: 0xa5ad0404
1. quadlet: 0x34393331
2. quadlet: 0x32a264e0
3. quadlet: 0xe1425000
4. quadlet: 0x7ab74002
5. quadlet: 0xc95c0300
6. quadlet: 0x42500003
7. quadlet: 0x02000081
8. quadlet: 0xc083000c
9. quadlet: 0x2a2c0600
update_config_rom returned 0

polling for leftover messages


It is odd that the number of nodes goes down when the camera is plugged in and turned on.

Can any one advise a way forward for me please?

Thanks in advance.