[PlanetCCRMA] dv issues

[Peter Lutek]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 15:08 -0500, Peter Lutek wrote:
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>>is anyone out there using dvgrab (or kino, for that matter) to acquire 
>>digital video on a FC3 planet-ccrma box?
>>
>>when i do "dvgrab test" (as root or user), i get: "raw1394 - failed to 
>>get handle: No such file or directory."
>>i get the same result if i try the -dv1394 option.
>>
>>it looks like both the dv1394 and raw1394 modules are loaded:
>>
>> >/sbin/lsmod|grep 1394
>>dv1394                 21068  0
>>raw1394                30700  0
>>ohci1394               34612  1 dv1394
>>ieee1394              302388  3 dv1394,raw1394,ohci1394
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>>i'm not sure i have the appropriate devs in place:
>>
>> >ls /dev|grep 1394
>>dv1394-0
>>
>>any help would be most welcome!
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>I think that the device file is not in the place where the program
>expects it to be, or has the wrong permissions. Check to see if you have
>a device file for raw1394:
>  ls /dev/*1394*
>and check the permissions (if they are wrong you can change them
>in /etc/security/console.perms so that the device belongs to whoever
>logs into the machine). 
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>I think some version of fedora puts the device in /dev/raw/ or something
>like that. 
>
>To see what the program expects you could trace the system calls calling
>it like this:
>  strace dvgrab test &>test.log
>and look at test.log with an editor, the program should be trying to
>access something in /dev/ and you can see what it was...
>
>-- Fernando
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thanks, fernando!

the raw1394 device is in /dev/raw but dvgrab is looking for /dev/raw1394.
is the best solution to just make a symlink from /dev/raw1394 to 
/dev/raw/raw1394?

-p