Re: Something broke :-( Re: fwcontrol update

Sean Bruno <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.firewire
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dieter wrote:
>>> More accurately:
>>>
>>> 	the camera itself works
>>>
>>> 	VIA controller can do fwcontrol -R
>>>
>>> 	VIA controller attempting to do fwcontrol -S gives dropouts
>>> 	on a regular basis, every couple seconds.  NEC does the same
>>> 	thing if in CYCLEMASTER mode.  I have not been able to get
>>> 	the VIA into non-CYCLEMASTER mode.  See today's attempt to
>>> 	do so using fwcontrol -f above.
>>>
>>> 	NEC controller can do fwcontrol -S (after switching to
>>> 	non-CYCLEMASTER mode)
>>>
>>> 	NEC controller used to do fwcontrol -R
>>>
>>> 	Now, if camera is connected to NEC controller and I press play
>>> 	(sending DV data to computer), lots of bus resets happen.  The
>>> 	resets have nothing to do with running fwcontrol.  The resets
>>> 	happen even if fwcontrol has not been run at all since FreeBSD
>>> 	was rebooted.
>>>       
>
>   
>> So, at this point I have done "something" to the NEC controller to 
>> remove functionality.
>>     
>
> Maybe, maybe not.  It might have been fwcontrol, or it might have
> been putting the camera in "camera" mode instead of "vcr" mode.
> The previous time I tried that, nothing at all happened.  I don't
> remember which controller it was connected to last time, so it might
> have been the VIA.  The goal being to capture video live, rather than
> having to record it on tape, rewind, play back.  Previously I got
> no indication that the camera was sending any data to the computer,
> this time I got the bus reset spewage.  I would think that the data
> would be the same either way (live or tape), but perhaps there is
> some difference which messed up the NCR.
>
> In hindsight, that was a bad time to throw in another variable.  :-(
>
>   
Ummm...ok.  Is the unit in "vcr" mode now when it generates the spewage?

Are we worse or better than when we started?  :)
>
>   
>> This seems a strange way to use your camera to me
>>     
>
> Strange how?
>   
It's strange to me that you don't have any applications other than fwcontrol
to pull and push files from your camera.

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