Looking for HOWTO to setup a camcorder via firewire card

[jesselee2046]

Hi. I bought a firewire card after I install 11.1. Then I use yast to install libraries that can be related (I installed dvgrab, libraw1394, libavc1394, etc). The card can be recognized at boot time.

Welcome to openSUSE 11.1 - Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default (0).

jesse@rainbowv:~> dmesg | grep 1394
ohci1394 0000:04:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ohci1394: fw-host0: Get PHY Reg timeout [0x00000000/0x00000000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[18] MMIO=[fdbff000-fdbff7ff] Max
Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[8/8]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Get PHY Reg timeout [0x00000000/0x00000000/100]
ohci1394: fw-host0: Get PHY Reg timeout [0x00000000/0x00000000/100]
jesse@rainbowv:~>

I then connect my camcorder. Nothing seems to happen. I run dvgrab and it said it can't find any camera.

Is there any HOWTO somewhere to tell me what else I need to configure ?

Thanks.

Jesse Lee

[oldcpu]

My camcorder is USB based and it "just works" for dragging and dropping video files from the camcorder to my PC's hard drive.

There is a video wiki here which makes reference to 1394/firewire, but its not well written (saying it politely): Video editing - openSUSE

There is a custom application one can compile and build for listing connected firewire devices. I posted on it here: Firewire equivalent of lsusb lspci ? - openSUSE Forums

My external hard drive firewire devices "just work" with openSUSE-11.1. I plug them in and I get a popup. ... Sorry that I can't offer more help re: your firewire camcorder ... maybe someone who has such a device working with openSUSE-11.1 can offer up their experience.

[conram]

I have a camcorder connected via firewire also. I am not expert on this. I just use it to play with some of my family event's video. There is nothing special to configure here it just work. I use kino and kdenlive to access my camcorder.

[deano_ferrari]

dvgrab from packman repo might be useful.

[jesselee2046]

Thanks for the tips. I will give them a try.

[conram]

Originally Posted by jesselee2046

Thanks for the tips. I will give them a try.

If you will try the kdenlive from the packman repo use the ffmpeg svn version this is the one that works on my kdenlive installation. There are two versions of it and you can choose it using the version section in yast2 sofware management.