title: Me, my minicam and Linux link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/me-my-minicam-and-linux/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 684 created: 2007/06/14 03:58:00 created_gmt: 2007/06/14 03:58:00 comment_status: open post_name: me-my-minicam-and-linux status: publish post_type: post

Me, my minicam and Linux

Finally got the SIIG Firewire card today. Popped it in and restarted the new Fedora 6 box.

Ran dmesg and saw:

ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry ip1394'
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[19] MMIO=[ecefe800-ecefefff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0001080038024d39]
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[08004601035d5e58]
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
WARNING: The dv1394 driver is unsupported and will be removed from Linux soon. Use raw1394 instead.
ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[08004601035d5e58]
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
ieee1394: Node resumed: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[08004601035d5e58]
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023`

Output of lsmod:

dv1394 22821 0 raw1394 30789 4 ohci1394 37489 1 dv1394 ieee1394 294809 3 dv1394,raw1394,ohci1394

OK. OK. So I jumped the gun. Plugged in the camera and turned it on.

First issue was, what do I use to grab the 3 hours of mini tape I’ve got?

Already knew that kino was a little flaky (well, alot flaky — very prone to crashing), at least on Red Hat.

Finally decided to use dvgrab, the command line dv capture utility that comes with kino (and is available as a separate package for most distros). Simple, straighforward. No GUI to mess with.

Start pulling video off the first tape, run:

dvgrab --autosplit tape1_

Boom. Starts echoing back to me:

"tape1_001.avi": 136.78 MB 1154 frames timecode 00:00:38.15 date 2006.09.18 13:08:54 "tape1_002.avi": 34.61 MB 292 frames timecode 00:00:48.07 date 2006.09.18 13:09:19 "tape1_003.avi": 99.21 MB 837 frames timecode 00:01:16.06 date 2006.09.18 13:10:04

Well, you get the idea. Still running as I write this. Plan to let it wind out overnight. Tommorrow I’ll begin looking at how to run all this video through an editor and put together some nice, topical, movies. After that it’s on to figuring out how to build my own DVD with menus fit for sending to grandpa.

For now, time for lights out.

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