Grabbing footage from a DV camcorder

[Jon Dixon]

Larry

Thanks for the suggestions; I'll be taking a look this coming week.

- Jon

Larry Grover wrote:
> 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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