Re: Sony DCR-TRV460 HandyCam help.

From: Dan Dennedy <dan_at_dennedy.org>
Date: Thu 13 Jan 2005 - 00:56:45 CET
Message-Id: <1105574205.7516.3.camel@kino.dennedy.org>

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 02:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.

You want to look for /dev/raw1394. If it does not exist, create it
manually as root:
% mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0

> This goes on for about 20k, (debugging is on obviously) and finally

Yes, turn that option off in the IEEE 1394 section of the kernel config.

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

I am not familiar with usbview.

> 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.

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.

Yes, the site owner is aware of the problem. Unfortunate state of
affairs that it is still unresolved. You can download them from:
http://sf.net/projects/kino/

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