Sony Handycam and linux/firewire
Stefan Koopmanschap (remove withoutspam to e-mail)
I'm currently running on a 10.0 slackware machine. It's a Dell laptop
and everything is working fine. Until now, I've not needed the firewire
port on my laptop. However, we recently bought a nice Sony DCR HC17e
Handycam and now I'd like to transfer the recorded video from the camera
into my laptop using the firewire port.
However, that doesn't work for me.
I've been looking on google and I've found a few success stories on
different Sony camera's (not the 17e yet though) but none really list
any useful tips on getting it to work. The first step seems to be to
ensure all related 1394 modules are loaded, and they are all loaded.
The next step, at least my next step, is to check whether something
happens when I plug in the camera and turn it on. It seems the syslog
does not register anything happening when I plug in the camera and turn
it on. Does anyone have any idea why?
Result of this is that the /dev/raw1394 is not created, which logically
causes dvgrab to error out with the following error:
raw1394 - failed to get handle: No such file or directory.
Not really a surprise eh?
Is there anyone here with experience he/she would want to share with the
rest of the world?
Stefan
Henrik Carlqvist
> The first step seems to be to ensure all related 1394 modules are
> loaded, and they are all loaded.
So I suppose you did something like this:
/sbin/modprobe raw1394
/sbin/modprobe dv1394
> The next step, at least my next step, is to check whether something
> happens when I plug in the camera and turn it on. It seems the syslog
> does not register anything happening when I plug in the camera and turn
> it on. Does anyone have any idea why?
I don't have any firewire camera here to test with, so I can't tell for
sure if you should find anything in dmesg.
> Result of this is that the /dev/raw1394 is not created, which logically
> causes dvgrab to error out with the following error:
In Slackware 9.1 you will have to create the devices yourself. They should
look like this:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 171, 0 Dec 17 2002 /dev/raw1394
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 172, 0 Dec 17 2002 /dev/video1394
So they should be created with:
mknod /dev/raw1394 c 171 0
mknod /dev/video1394 c 172 0
> Is there anyone here with experience he/she would want to share with the
> rest of the world?
Once you have the above working you should start using it with tools like
gscanbus, kino and dvgrab.
regards Henrik
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Stefan Koopmanschap (remove withoutspam to e-mail)
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 171, 0 Dec 17 2002 /dev/raw1394
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 172, 0 Dec 17 2002 /dev/video1394
>
> So they should be created with:
>
> mknod /dev/raw1394 c 171 0
> mknod /dev/video1394 c 172 0
Thanks, that works perfectly. I've just captured the first bit of video.
awesome!
Stefan