Re: Anyone using dvgrab successfully in opensuse 11.0/11.1?

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Woojin Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 16 May 2009 05:22:52 pm Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Woojin Lee wrote:
>> > Thanks.  I did try two different DV camcoder w/ same result.  May be both
>> > cables are bad.  I'm gonna have to look for computers with different
>> > OS...  :=)
>>
>> One other thing which you can try is to connect the two PCs with each
>> other (if you have them in one place and have a matching cable).
>> If each of them reports two nodes then, they are good and the problem is
>> with the camcorders or the camcorders' cables.  If the PCs do not detect
>> each other, then the physical interface of one or both PCs is damaged or
>> the cable is defective.
>
> That's a great idea.  I just tried it and when I connected two PCs together
> with the same cable, this is what I got on both PCs.
>
> /sys/bus/ieee1394/devices/fw-host0/node_count:2
> /sys/bus/ieee1394/devices/fw-host0/nodes_active:2
> /sys/bus/ieee1394/devices/fw-host0/selfid_count:2
>
> which I presume means success.  So, am I safe to assume the cards and the
> cable are good then?  It's hard to believe that both DV camcoders are damaged
> though...  They both are relative new.  Is there anything else that could be
> the issue?  I'll see if I can find another DV camera.
>

I had some problems too.  No clue if it was the same problem, or
exactly what my problem was.  but I remember thinking " It's hard to
believe that both DV camcoders" till someone pointed out there are
probably some common chipsets / implementations.  I also concluded
that 99% of the people coming across the problem were able to roll
with it, like the driver/app was able to just drop some frames and
continue.

my only point is "yes, it could be both DV camcoders are damaged." but
it isn't a very strong case.

-- 
Carl K

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