Re: kino and dvgrab on x86-64 Gentoo (was Re: Kino Crashes Opening Files)

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Stefan
Richter<[email protected]> wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Opening files works for me here on an amd64 Gentoo box.
>>
>> [But capturing doesn't work for me; Gentoo's kino-1.3.1 and -1.3.3 as
>> well as dvgrab-3.4 stop early after one frame or a few frames;
>> dvgrab-3.1 works though.

When you say "stop" does dvgrab exit or simply stop writing to file?

> dvgrab-3.4 captures OK with -noavc.  Ditto if I compile it from the
> tarball; well, it uses the same libraries then so that doesn't make a
> difference anyway.
>
> If didn't find a workaround for kino yet.  Simply disabling AVC controls
> doesn't get capture going beyond the 1st frame.
>
> It's a JVC GR-D725E.  Old and new drivers of 2.6.29 and .30, libraw1394
> 2.0.2, libiec6833 1.1.0, libavc1394 0.5.3, libdv 0.9.7.
>
> Dvgrab and kino did work with this camcorder on an x86-32 Gentoo box
> before.  Don't remember what the library versions were on that box.

There is a big test in the middle of captureThreadRun() in dvgrab.cc
around a call to writeFrame(). It would be interesting test for you to
comment the if lines and call writeFrame unconditionally to see if it
resolves.

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