[PlanetCCRMA] dv issues

[Peter Lutek]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 16:25 -0500, Peter Lutek wrote:
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>>Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 15:08 -0500, Peter Lutek wrote:
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>>>>is anyone out there using dvgrab (or kino, for that matter) to acquire 
>>>>digital video on a FC3 planet-ccrma box?
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>>>>when i do "dvgrab test" (as root or user), i get: "raw1394 - failed to 
>>>>get handle: No such file or directory."
>>>>i get the same result if i try the -dv1394 option.
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>>>>it looks like both the dv1394 and raw1394 modules are loaded:
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>>>>>/sbin/lsmod|grep 1394
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>>>>dv1394                 21068  0
>>>>raw1394                30700  0
>>>>ohci1394               34612  1 dv1394
>>>>ieee1394              302388  3 dv1394,raw1394,ohci1394
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>>>>i'm not sure i have the appropriate devs in place:
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>>>>>ls /dev|grep 1394
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>>>>dv1394-0
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>>>>any help would be most welcome!
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>>>I think that the device file is not in the place where the program
>>>expects it to be, or has the wrong permissions. Check to see if you have
>>>a device file for raw1394:
>>> ls /dev/*1394*
>>>and check the permissions (if they are wrong you can change them
>>>in /etc/security/console.perms so that the device belongs to whoever
>>>logs into the machine). 
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>>>I think some version of fedora puts the device in /dev/raw/ or something
>>>like that. 
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>>>To see what the program expects you could trace the system calls calling
>>>it like this:
>>> strace dvgrab test &>test.log
>>>and look at test.log with an editor, the program should be trying to
>>>access something in /dev/ and you can see what it was...
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>>thanks, fernando!
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>>the raw1394 device is in /dev/raw but dvgrab is looking for /dev/raw1394.
>>is the best solution to just make a symlink from /dev/raw1394 to 
>>/dev/raw/raw1394?
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>Yes, a link would work, I don't remember if it will survive a reboot
>(does fc3 use udev? - does a cold and sore throat erase system admin
>memories? :-). 
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>-- Fernando
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well, the symlink worked, but did not survive a reboot. what now?

-p