Re: dvgrab

[Timothy M. S. <ts...@k-...>]

Bryan:

I'm curious what set of parameters you used with dvgrab ... I have a PCILynx
card, 2.3.99-pre3 kernel, and a Canon XL-1, and I haven't been able to grab
anything - I'm able to successfully control the camera through my SDPAVC
library, but not so much as a "peep" of isochronous data.

Also, another good solution for viewing AVIs under Windoze without a reboot
is VMWare ... it's proprietary software ($99 for non-commercial use), but
works like a charm - it allows you to run any flavor of DOS/Windows in an X
window, using a virtual filesystem (no more partitioning!).

Us XL-1 guys gotta stick together ... :)
Tim



Last night my friend and I went out and bought a $79 Digital Research
firewire card at Best Buy.  This card runs off the TI chipset which is
OHCI compliant.  I recompiled my kernel and got everything working, but I
don`t know what to use to view/convert the outported avi file from dvgrab.
I tried using gvplay, but it crashes complaining about audio not being
supported yet.  xanim doesn`t work either.  Maybe someone knows of a
converter program I can use to convert the uncompressed avi to a mpeg2 or
regular mpeg?

Here`s the specs of my setup:

Digital Research IEEE-1394 4-port card (3ext, 1int)
Canon XL1 Digital Camcorder
AMD K6-3 450
128MB RAM
1GB free on this computer, but will be using a 36GB drive NFS mounted
later for storage.
Sound Blaster Live! Value with pretty new open source drivers.

The IEEE-1394 will eventually go in a nicer computer with an 18GB SCSI-3
drive and probably dual-processors.  I want to be able to use Broadcast
2000 to generate movies with eventually...

If there`s any other information that might be needed such as the actual
chipset model number on the IEEE-1394 card please ask.  Right now I`m
either thinking that the avi file was created correctly and I haven`t
found any programs that can read it yet, or the XL1 isn`t fully supported
yet and I can try and help you guys out with adding support.

Bryan


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