| Some time ago I purchased a JVC GR-D30U MiniDV camera and started shooting. Along with the camera I purchased an IEEE 1394 PCI board and slapped it into my Red Hat 9 Pentium III box but never had the time to find out about the drivers, etc. Here is the board specification: FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) Now I've got a bigger hard drive and since my box was a bit outdated I decided to install a fresh Knoppix 3.4, which worked out very well. To my surprise, the card was automatically recognized. The device /dev/raw1394 was already created with the following modules loaded: raw1394 32364 0 dv1394 23116 0 eth1394 22536 0 ohci1394 36484 1 dv1394 ieee1394 310712 4 raw1394,dv1394,eth1394,ohci1394 So I went ahead and plugged in my camera and got this on my /var/log/messages: Jul 25 12:44:17 knoppix ieee1394.agent[2693]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x Jul 25 12:44:17 knoppix ieee1394.agent[2714]: dv1394: loaded successfully Jul 25 12:44:17 knoppix ieee1394.agent[2710]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x Jul 25 12:44:17 knoppix ieee1394.agent[2714]: raw1394: loaded successfully All I needed was some software, so I installed Kino with: apt-get install kino And presto!. Simply clicked on the CAPTURE button and there was my video:  What makes me really happy is the fact that nowadays anyone could install Linux on a PC and get internet access, email, games and even download edit digital video from a MiniDV camera... Hey! who needs windows then ? |  |
MiniDV capture via FireWire
2004.07.25 @ 1:51:12 PM