firewire and video editing
I have just got a digital video camera and a firewire card. I assume the firewire card is installed as i have seen driver information about it. But i wasnt informed when it was being installed!(is that meant to happen?). My problem is now that i have no idea how to mount the video camera. doe sany have any experiance this type of thing? If so any advice you could give me would be invaluble. Cheers -- Andrew Nix St Pauls Catholic High School Firbank Road Newall Green Wythenshawe Manchester M23 2YS tel: 0161 4375841 ext 168 fax: 0161 4982030
--- Andrew Nix
I have just got a digital video camera and a firewire card. I assume the firewire card is installed as i have seen driver information about it.
Nope -- that means nothing. That just means that the kernel has detected its presence. The command: dmesg | less would be useful to you here in ascertaining what the kernel says about it. It maybe the case that certain modules have to be loaded via ismod (which I greatly deprecate the use of -- in favour of modprobe).
But i wasnt informed when it was being installed!(is that meant to happen?). My problem is now that i have no idea how to mount the video camera. doe sany have any experiance this type of thing? If so any advice you could give me would be invaluble. Cheers
How is the video camera connected? -- Thomas Adam ===== Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- www.linuxgazette.com ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/
Nope -- that means nothing. That just means that the kernel has detected its presence. The command:
dmesg | less
I tried that and this is what I got about firewire ieee1394: SelfID completion called outside of bus reset! ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[0011060000004880] [Linux OHCI-1394] ieee1394: Device added: Node[01:1023] GUID[000085000073f4c0] [Canon] raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized but have no idea what it means.
How is the video camera connected?
Firewire thats why I metioned it. Im sorry if i wasnt clear enough. -- Andrew Nix St Pauls Catholic High School Firbank Road Newall Green Wythenshawe Manchester M23 2YS tel: 0161 4375841 ext 168 fax: 0161 4982030
Andrew, Take a toddle over to http://kino.schimaker.de I've had reasonable success with this compared with cinelerra ( http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 ) but still seems to be a few issues when running an SMP kernel ( ie on a P4 etc) Peter Wilson Tuxite On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:24, Andrew Nix wrote:
I have just got a digital video camera and a firewire card. I assume the firewire card is installed as i have seen driver information about it. But i wasnt informed when it was being installed!(is that meant to happen?). My problem is now that i have no idea how to mount the video camera. doe sany have any experiance this type of thing? If so any advice you could give me would be invaluble. Cheers
-- Andrew Nix
St Pauls Catholic High School Firbank Road Newall Green Wythenshawe Manchester M23 2YS tel: 0161 4375841 ext 168 fax: 0161 4982030
Whoops, that should be http://kino.schirmacher.de Peter Wilson Tuxite On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 12:57, Peter Wilson wrote:
Andrew,
Take a toddle over to http://kino.schimaker.de
I've had reasonable success with this compared with cinelerra ( http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 ) but still seems to be a few issues when running an SMP kernel ( ie on a P4 etc)
Peter Wilson Tuxite
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:24, Andrew Nix wrote:
I have just got a digital video camera and a firewire card. I assume the firewire card is installed as i have seen driver information about it. But i wasnt informed when it was being installed!(is that meant to happen?). My problem is now that i have no idea how to mount the video camera. doe sany have any experiance this type of thing? If so any advice you could give me would be invaluble. Cheers
-- Andrew Nix
St Pauls Catholic High School Firbank Road Newall Green Wythenshawe Manchester M23 2YS tel: 0161 4375841 ext 168 fax: 0161 4982030
I was going to use mainactor. How does this compare to the other apps?
Whoops, that should be
Peter Wilson Tuxite
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 12:57, Peter Wilson wrote:
Andrew,
Take a toddle over to http://kino.schimaker.de
I've had reasonable success with this compared with cinelerra ( http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 ) but still seems to be a few issues when running an SMP kernel ( ie on a P4 etc)
Peter Wilson Tuxite
I have just got a digital video camera and a firewire card. I assume
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:24, Andrew Nix wrote: the firewire card is installed as i have seen driver information about it. But i wasnt informed when it was being installed!(is that meant to happen?). My problem is now that i have no idea how to mount the video camera. doe sany have any experiance this type of thing? If so any advice you could give me would be invaluble.
Cheers
-- Andrew Nix
St Pauls Catholic High School Firbank Road Newall Green Wythenshawe Manchester M23 2YS tel: 0161 4375841 ext 168 fax: 0161 4982030
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Sorry, haven't tried mainactor, I do remember seeing an article in either linux format or magazine a while ago, I'll see if I can find the ref. but from what I remember capabilities where pretty much akin to kino and cinelerra. BTW looking at your dmesg output you seem to have an operational device, I would check the permissions on /dev/raw1394 though otherwise you may have probs using it as anything other than root. Peter Wilson Tuxite On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 13:43, Andrew Nix wrote:
I was going to use mainactor. How does this compare to the other apps?
Whoops, that should be
Peter Wilson Tuxite
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 12:57, Peter Wilson wrote:
Andrew,
Take a toddle over to http://kino.schimaker.de
I've had reasonable success with this compared with cinelerra ( http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 ) but still seems to be a few issues when running an SMP kernel ( ie on a P4 etc)
Peter Wilson Tuxite
I have just got a digital video camera and a firewire card. I assume
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 11:24, Andrew Nix wrote: the firewire card is installed as i have seen driver information about it. But i wasnt informed when it was being installed!(is that meant to happen?). My problem is now that i have no idea how to mount the video camera. doe sany have any experiance this type of thing? If so any advice you could give me would be invaluble.
Cheers
-- Andrew Nix
St Pauls Catholic High School Firbank Road Newall Green Wythenshawe Manchester M23 2YS tel: 0161 4375841 ext 168 fax: 0161 4982030
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Sorry, haven't tried mainactor, I do remember seeing an article in either linux format or magazine a while ago, I'll see if I can find the ref. but from what I remember capabilities where pretty much akin to kino and cinelerra.
I mite aswell try all of them once!
BTW looking at your dmesg output you seem to have an operational device, I would check the permissions on /dev/raw1394 though otherwise you may have probs using it as anything other than root.
How do i do this? How do I mount the camera? or get linux to recognise that its there? -- Andrew Nix St Pauls Catholic High School Firbank Road Newall Green Wythenshawe Manchester M23 2YS tel: 0161 4375841 ext 168 fax: 0161 4982030
--- Andrew Nix
Sorry, haven't tried mainactor, I do remember seeing an article in either linux format or magazine a while ago, I'll see if I can find the ref. but from what I remember capabilities where pretty much akin to kino and cinelerra.
I mite aswell try all of them once!
BTW looking at your dmesg output you seem to have an operational device, I would check the permissions on /dev/raw1394 though otherwise you may have probs using it as anything other than root.
the /dev/raw* files are used for accessing raw memory directly from devices. While I am not sure if it is the case for SuSE, but issuing the command: /sbin/MAKEDEV raw helps to create the right node files (a la mknod).
How do i do this?
How do I mount the camera? or get linux to recognise that its there?
Firewire support is quite experimetal under Linux, but possible. Alas, I am not sure. -- Thomas Adam ===== Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- www.linuxgazette.com ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/
Your system seems to be automagically recognising the device, you can check this with lsmod to see if the raw1394 module has been loaded and associated with ieee1394, if it has then great. You don't 'mount' the video camera as such, rather kino/cinelerra manages data transfer via the raw1394 device, and if your lucky also allows you to control it from your computer (play, jog/shuttle etc) With regards to permissions for /dev/raw1394, generally this is set to read only for anybody other than root, and is also owned by root. If you do an 'ls -l /dev/raw1394' you will probably see permissions set to crw-r--r-- root root If security is not a major 'ahem' problem do a 'chmod a+w /dev/raw1394', but would suggest creating a video group, adding yourself into it and then 'chgrp video /dev/raw1394' and 'chmod g+w /dev/1394' Peter Wilson Tuxite On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 14:12, Andrew Nix wrote:
Sorry, haven't tried mainactor, I do remember seeing an article in either linux format or magazine a while ago, I'll see if I can find the ref. but from what I remember capabilities where pretty much akin to kino and cinelerra.
I mite aswell try all of them once!
BTW looking at your dmesg output you seem to have an operational device, I would check the permissions on /dev/raw1394 though otherwise you may have probs using it as anything other than root.
How do i do this?
How do I mount the camera? or get linux to recognise that its there?
-- Andrew Nix
St Pauls Catholic High School Firbank Road Newall Green Wythenshawe Manchester M23 2YS tel: 0161 4375841 ext 168 fax: 0161 4982030
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