Re: dv stream to firewire

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Stefan Richter
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 20 Carl Karsten wrote:
>> found it: dvconnect =A0captures =A0raw DV streams from or sends raw DV
>> streams to the =A0Linux IEEE 1394 video1394 device. ... channel to send
>> / receive on (range: 0 - 63, default =3D 63).
>>
>> But:
>>
>> sudo dvconnect -s -d /dev/fw1 dvgrab-008.dv
>> VIDEO1394_TALK_CHANNEL: Invalid argument
>>
>> sudo dvconnect -s -d /dev/fw0 dvgrab-008.dv
>> VIDEO1394_TALK_CHANNEL: Invalid argument
>
> The video1394 kernel driver has been removed in Linux 2.6.37.
> firewire-core's ioctl ABI differs from video1394's.
>
> Unless you find a DV sender that is solely libraw1394 (plus perhaps
> libiec61883) based, you either need to dig out an old kernel, or
> forward-port video1394 to your current kernel, or write a
> <linux/firewire-cdev.h> based DV sender...

Figured as much, thanks for confirming.

Not worth putting much effort into, and need it to be used in
production in 2 days.  I didn't even like how things were going when
it seemed like there might be a usable chain.


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Carl K

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