Grabbing footage from a DV camcorder
Larry Grover
lgrover at zoominternet.net
Sat Jan 1 19:16:15 UTC 2005
Jon Dixon wrote:
> Has anyone tried this under Ubuntu?
>
> I would like to do this without reverting to my XP desktop with Adobe
> stuff if possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>
I've captured video from analog tape via an analog-DV converter
(Canopus ADVC-100), which should be the same as capturing from a DV
camcorder.
I used my iBook, which has a built in firewire port, and the kino
program (under Ubuntu Warty and now Hoary).
What kind of problems are you having?
The only problem I ran into was that the /dev/raw1394 device was not
created automatically. You can create this device manually:
sudo mknod /dev/raw1394 c 171 0
sudo chown root:video /dev/raw1394
sudo chmod 666 /dev/raw1394
...but it won't survive a reboot.
To save having to retype these lines everytime I wanted to grab video,
I added a few lines to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh:
if [ ! -e /dev/raw1394 ]
then
mknod /dev/raw1394 c 171 0
chown root:video /dev/raw1394
chmod 666 /dev/raw1394
fi
There's probably a better way of handling this than modifying the
system init scripts, but it was simple and it works for me.
I hope this was helpful,
Larry
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