On 24 May 2002 08:17:24 -0500 "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What device are you looking to use? I frequently use a firewire > > connection to my DV8 camcorder to pull video from it. > > What brand of firewire card do you have? Also, does it matter > which brand/model of DV8 camcorder one has? The card is an el-cheapo but uses the Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 chipset as shown here: FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 OHCI Compliant IEEE-1394 Controller (rev 0). I bought the card just to see if I could get things working. Lucky me, I got what appears to be a decent and supported chipset. I'm not absolutely certain that the brand of camcorder matters. I mistyped the type of camcorder, it's actually a MiniDV (my bad). It's one of Sony's DCR series (don't have it in front of me). Once the appropriate firewire modules have been loaded, I normally use either dvgrab or kino to pull video from the device. Dvgrab is a great command line tool, but doesn't offer the ability to start or stop the play back of the device. It simply grabs what the device is playing. Kino is a graphical tool with similiar grabbing capabilities to dvgrab, but with the addition of being able to remotely control my camcorder. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]