<div dir="ltr"><div><div>As a follow up and proof the stack is fine and I was hindered by faulty hardware:<br><br>[ 1109.426136] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle inconsistent<br>[ 1109.426151] firewire_core: skipped bus generations, destroying all nodes<br>
[ 1109.924066] firewire_core: rediscovered device fw0<br>[ 1109.924089] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5<br>[ 1113.019415] firewire_core: created device fw1: GUID 080046010368430a, S100, 1 config ROM retries<br>
leon@beast:~$ dvgrab - |mplayer -<br>Found AV/C device with GUID 0x080046010368430a<br>libiec61883 error: Failed to get channels available.<br>Waiting for DV...<br>Capture Started<br>MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team<br>
mplayer: could not connect to socket<br>mplayer: No such file or directory<br>Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.<br><br>Playing -.<br>Reading from stdin...<br>libavformat version 53.21.1 (external)<br>
Mismatching header version 53.19.0<br>Cannot seek backward in linear streams!<br>Seek failed<br>Cannot seek backward in linear streams!<br>Seek failed<br>Cannot seek backward in linear streams!<br>Seek failed<br>Cannot seek backward in linear streams!<br>
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Seek failed<br>libavformat file format detected.<br>Cannot seek backward in linear streams!<br>Seek failed<br>[dv @ 0x7f445768a940]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate<br>[lavf] stream 0: video (dvvideo), -vid 0<br>
[lavf] stream 1: audio (pcm_s16le), -aid 0<br>[lavf] stream 2: audio (pcm_s16le), -aid 1<br>VIDEO: [dvsd] 720x576 0bpp 25.000 fps 28800.0 kbps (3515.6 kbyte/s)<br>Load subtitles in ./<br>==========================================================================<br>
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family<br>libavcodec version 53.35.0 (external)<br>Mismatching header version 53.32.2<br>Selected video codec: [ffdv] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg DV)<br>==========================================================================<br>
==========================================================================<br>Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder<br>AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1024.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 128000->128000)<br>
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)<br>==========================================================================<br>AO: [pulse] 32000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)<br>Starting playback...<br>Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.<br>
VO: [vdpau] 720x576 => 768x576 Planar YV12 <br>Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.<br>VO: [vdpau] 720x576 => 768x576 Planar YV12 <br>A: 3.0 V: 3.0 A-V: -0.000 ct: 0.040 0/ 0 23% 3% 3.4% 2 0 <br>
<br>Exiting... (Quit)<br><br><br></div>I could see the grab in Mplayer just fine!<br><br></div>Leon<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>--<br>DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'<br>
<br># cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats<br>Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Leon Wright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techman83@gmail.com" target="_blank">techman83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Word of Advice (one I've always stumped myself on):<div><br></div><div>Firstly:</div><div>Check the %$^&(*#*$&^# hardware.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been fighting with a problem with firewire (which in my experience "Just Works") and it bloody well turns out not only does one of the cables I'm using have a faulty 4 pin plug, but the camera I'm using looks like it has a faulty port.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Secondly:</div><div>Troubleshooting is very difficult when you don't have a _known_ working configuration.</div><div><br></div><div>Happy Friday Peoples!</div><div><br></div><div>Leon<br clear="all">
<div>--<br>DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'<br><br># cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats<br>Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!</div>
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