Sony DCR-TRV460 HandyCam help.

Greetings everybody;

A friend of the missus has passed a bit suddenly, and as we have quite
a bit of footage of the lady on Hi8 tapes, I went out and bought this
camera because it has both USB and Firewire interfaces which should
allow me to import a few frames and pretty them up in the gimp for
hardcopy output.

The system here is a pretty badly hacked up FC2 upgrade, with major
pieces of it, like cups, gutenprint-5.0beta2, gimp, sane/xsane and
many others having been built from tarballs, cups in particular when
fedora didn't seem to understand that the version they were shipping
was broken and killing kde when they came in contact with each other.
KDE itself is 3.3.0, built via konstruct.

Anyway...

I've installed a TI PCILynx 4 port firewire card, and once I built the
basic ieee1394.ko driver into the kernel, the next reboot seemed to
find it ok, and when I plugged in the camera and turned it on, there
was a rather lengthy report naming fw-host0: as the device,
extracting that its a Sony etc. However, there is no /dev/fw-host0
file anyplace in the /dev tree so I'm a bit stuck at moving any
closer to actually working.

>From messages:
Jan 12 00:45:05 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IntEvent: 00030010
Jan 12 00:45:05 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: irq_handler: Bus
reset requested
Jan 12 00:45:05 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Cancel request
received
Jan 12 00:45:05 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Got RQPkt interrupt
status=0x00008409
Jan 12 00:45:05 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: SelfID received,
but NodeID invalid (probably new bus reset occu
rred): 0800FFC0
Jan 12 00:45:05 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Single packet rcv'd
Jan 12 00:45:05 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Single packet rcv'd
Jan 12 00:45:05 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IntEvent: 00800000
Jan 12 00:45:05 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0:
OHCI1394_cycleInconsistent
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IntEvent: 00000010
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Got RQPkt interrupt
status=0x00008409
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Single packet rcv'd
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IntEvent: 00010000
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: SelfID interrupt
received (phyid 0, not root)
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: SelfID packet
0x806c8c94 received
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: SelfID for this
node is 0x806c8c94
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: SelfID packet
0x816c08c2 received
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: SelfID complete
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0:
PhyReqFilter=ffffffffffffffff
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Inserting packet
for node 0-01:1023, tlabel=0, tcode=0x4, speed=
0
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Starting transmit
DMA ctx=0
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IntEvent: 00000001
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Got reqTxComplete
interrupt status=0x00008012
Jan 12 00:45:06 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Packet sent to node
1 tcode=0x4 tLabel=0x00 ack=0x12 spd=0 data=
0x00000000 ctx=0

[...]

This goes on for about 20k, (debugging is on obviously) and finally
finishes up with:

Jan 12 00:45:07 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Waking transmit DMA
ctx=0
Jan 12 00:45:07 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IntEvent: 00000001
Jan 12 00:45:07 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Got reqTxComplete
interrupt status=0x00008012
Jan 12 00:45:07 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Packet sent to node
0 tcode=0x4 tLabel=0x2C ack=0x12 spd=0 data=
0x00000000 ctx=0
Jan 12 00:45:07 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: IntEvent: 00000020
Jan 12 00:45:07 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Got RSPkt interrupt
status=0x00008411
Jan 12 00:45:07 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Single packet rcv'd
Jan 12 00:45:07 coyote kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Packet received
from node 0 ack=0x11 spd=0 tcode=0x6 length=20 c
tx=0 tlabel=12
Jan 12 00:45:07 coyote kernel: ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device
initialized

Do we have an ieee1394 viewer that works like usbview? That might be
enlightening here.

Unforch, I find that MythTV seems to be pointed at the Hauppauge
PVR-350 genre of video digitizer cards, and apparently cannot extract
from a firewire or usb interface.

That seems, from what I've found on the web, to indicate either kino,
or dvgrab as the tool of choice to grab an image from this camera.

The camera does play my Hi8 tapes just fine, so thats at least
correct.

Unforch, going back to the web page where these (kino, dvgrab) can be
downloaded, I don't have perms to actually dl these, getting an error
403 from the server both last nite when I first tried to dl them and
again tonight.

My mistake? Or the servers?

Any help that can be thrown my way will be very gratefully
acknowledged.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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