Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-14 Thread Georg Holzmann
Hallo! > But I am having no luck with pix_video or pdp_v4l. The main problem > seems to be that (apparently) recently the naming conventions > in debian and possibly linux in general were changed. So there is > no more /dev/video0 for the v4l mode, and for pix_video trying to > work directly with

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-15 Thread Olivier Heinry
Le mardi 14 août 2007 à 22:19 +0200, Tim Boykett a écrit : > Hi Kids! > >Time for a new adventure. I would like to have a working > firewire camera input for manipulation in Gem on a linux > box that is sitting here purring at me. The cam works > fine with Kino and dvgrab, so the linux-firewi

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-15 Thread Joseph Barrows
Hi, I'm having the same problem under fedore core 6 - there is no /dev/video any advice? (there is no /dev/ieee1394 either (kino see the camera fine) thanks, Joseph On 15/08/07, Tim Boykett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Kids! > >Time for a new adventure. I would like to have a workin

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-15 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi Georg, Thanks for your reply. When you say "quite some time ago" when was that approximately? I see that in Dec 06 Ico Bukvic was having the same problem, but the thread stops on the PD list. Anyway, I tried your suggestion. When I try this I get "Bad argument for message 'driver' to objec

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-15 Thread Tim Boykett
Hi Olivier, Thanks for your advice! I tried adding the line to udev-rules; I presumed that the result should be three lines: KERNEL=="raw1394", NAME="%k" KERNEL=="dv1394", NAME="dv1394/%k" KERNEL=="video1394*", NAME="video1394/%n" I had the 2nd and 3rd, so I added the first. However, no chang

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-21 Thread Tim Boykett
Hello Linux / DV users, Summary: I think I have a fix for the problem with pix_video that has effected several people on some linux distributions. Please read on if this matters to you. Note: this is probably for the pd-dev list, but I am not on it, so I hope that one of the PD-dev people can

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-21 Thread Tim Boykett
Apologies for a slight stuff up, The suggestion I made here, I now notice deep in the source, has been made. with the message |device /dev/dv1394/0( to pix_video I could have made this work all those days ago. Cheers, tm On 21/08/2007, at 10:28 PM, Tim Boykett wrote: > to have special n

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-22 Thread Tim Boykett
I plan to update the help file for pix_video before hans gets the next extended out the door. cheers, tim On 22/08/2007, at 9:58 AM, Olivier Heinry wrote: > Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 22:49 +0200, Tim Boykett a écrit : >> Apologies for a slight stuff up, The suggestion I made here, I now >> no

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-22 Thread Georg Holzmann
Tim Boykett schrieb: > Apologies for a slight stuff up, > > The suggestion I made here, I now notice deep in the source, has been > made. > with the message > > |device /dev/dv1394/0( > > to pix_video I could have made this work all those days ago. It should be documented in the help patch th

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-22 Thread Georg Holzmann
Tim Boykett schrieb: > Apologies for a slight stuff up, > > The suggestion I made here, I now notice deep in the source, has been > made. > with the message > > |device /dev/dv1394/0( > > to pix_video I could have made this work all those days ago. I should be documented in the help patch tho

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-22 Thread Olivier Heinry
Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 22:49 +0200, Tim Boykett a écrit : > Apologies for a slight stuff up, > > The suggestion I made here, I now notice deep in the source, has been > made. > with the message > > |device /dev/dv1394/0( > > to pix_video I could have made this work all those days ago. > > C

Re: [PD] Gem and ieee1394 firewire cam on linux debian

2007-08-27 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey, If you do get this C code working, please submit a patch to the patch tracker, then it can easily be included. .hc On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Tim Boykett wrote: > > > Hello Linux / DV users, > > Summary: I think I have a fix for the problem with pix_video that > has effected several p