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Post subject: Firewire, Kino, and video capture
 Posted: Oct 10, 2008 - 05:52 PM
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A few months and a motherboard upgrade ago my firewire/kino setup worked for video capture from my Sony Handicam. A month or so ago when I tried to move some video I found it no longer work. I spent some time reviewing the sidux forms and beyond and much tinkering with firewire setups but haven't been able to get video capture working again.
The previous working setup used the "old" firewire setup as described by xvid in the message thread on "Kino/Cinlerra". This is the closest as sidux loads all the correct old modules and registers the plugin/plugout of the camera in the Kinfo Center IEEE1394 readout. However Kino doesn't see the camera and video capture doen't work.
I tried the "new" juju firewire setup described by shame in the message thread on "Problems trying to transfer camcorder video to sidux" thread. The correct modules can be loaded but the camera plugin/plugout isn't registered as above and, not surprisingly, video capture doesn't work.
I have a TI firewire chip in my Gigabyte 780G motherboard and am running a completely updated (including 2.6.26.6-slh-1) sidux 2007-03.
Has anyone had any luck getting firewire and/or Kino to work with the current sidux? Any advice, suggestions, or detailed directions would be appreciated. |
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Post subject: RE: Firewire, Kino, and video capture
Posted: Oct 10, 2008 - 10:34 PM
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| Did you try a chmod 666 /dev/raw1394? In my sidux upgraded to today all is working. |
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Post subject: RE: Firewire, Kino, and video capture
Posted: Oct 11, 2008 - 07:42 PM
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Yes, I am capture videos with the current sidux version. I am also use a Sony HandyCam (DCR-HC53). When I first try this I also has no luck but then I follow the suggestions from bitpopler in this thread: http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-8686.html
It's in german but I thing you will understand most of them.
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Posted: Oct 13, 2008 - 11:00 AM
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Thanks for the responses. The "old" setup I used, as noted above, is working except that Kino does not see the camera or capture video. This is what has been repored as working by severl pelple. I don't know how sidux can see and properly register/deregister my camera, as can be seen on the K Infocenter IEEE1394 Devices readout, yet Kino won't work. Obviously the drivers are loaded, the firewire cable is working, and sidux properly registers the camera. I tried purging Kino and reinstalling and even (on a backup installation) installing the latest Kino version, 1.3.2. I also did make sure that /dev/1394raw is available by using chmod 666 /dev/raw1394 and/or chmod a+rw /dev/raw1394.
The only thing I haven't done is update my kernel as I am at the latest version; however, I did run as root: update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r) which should accomplish what is needed, as far as I can see.
Strangely, the first time I reran chmod 666 /dev/raw1394 and started Kino the camera was recognized. However, the capture didn't work, although I think there was a setting that was off and it aborted. The rest of the afternoon it never showed any signs of recognizing the camera.
I'll keep puttering away and report if I find out my problem. Thanks for the input! |
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Posted: Oct 13, 2008 - 02:39 PM
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Remember that kino is not working with new firewire stack!!
In /etc/modprobe.d/ieee1394 you must blacklist the new one. This is my file:
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### /etc/modprobe.d/ieee1394 - blacklist alternative firewire stack for sidux
## please read http://wiki.linux1394.org/JujuMigration to decide which
## firewire stack to prefer
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## comment out the preferred driver variants.
## uncomment the blacklist entries for unwanted variants
### new "Juju" FireWire driver stack (CONFIG_FIREWIRE)
blacklist firewire-ohci
blacklist firewire-sbp2
### old IEEE1394 stack (CONFIG_IEEE1394)
#blacklist ohci1394
#blacklist sbp2
#blacklist dv1394
#blacklist raw1394
#blacklist video1394
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Posted: Oct 17, 2008 - 05:43 PM
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Thank you everyone for your responses. I had followed the advice in the Kino/Cinelerra thread in this forum section.
QUOTE From XVID6
This is what finally worked for me:
got info from here:http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-8686-highlight-firewire.html
Thank you Devil, thank you shame.
I started with a fresh install of sidux-2008-02-erebos-pre1-kde-lite-i386-200806032235.iso. I did this because I tried so many different things and may have been making problems for myself, probably not really needed though.
5 STEPS TO MAKE FIREWIRE WORK
1. I deleted the file /etc/modprobe.d/ieee1394 not edited, DELETED.
2. I placed the following in the file /etc/modules
ohci1394
sbp2
dv1394
raw1394
video1394
3. I edited /etc/udev/permissions.rules to look like this:
# Ieee1394 Devices
KERNEL == "raw1394", GROUP = "video"
KERNEL == "dv1394 *", GROUP = "video"
KERNEL == "video1394 *", GROUP = "video"
4. I updated the kernel with smxi.
5. As root: modprobe raw1394
END QUOTE
I have been playing around for a few days checking and tweaking and it is getting better. However, despite the system being aware of the Sony Camera, as evidenced by the KDE Info Center ieee1394 readout, Kino doesn't always respond properly. It was reliable in the past and I am uncertain why it is a bit flaky now. However, now it does work sufficiently well to capture video so I am satisfied for the moment. Perhaps this will be of use to some other sidux firewire video users. If you are having problems it should eventually work! Just for the record I have a 2007-03 installation that is always current with system and kernel updates. |
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