[AG-TECH] Not finding Firewire DV on UQ advanced vic

[Christoph Willing]

On 25/05/2007, at 8:03 AM, Andrew Ford wrote:

> HI,
>
> I've been testing out the UQ vic with DV, but it can't seem to find  
> my camera. It can be seen by my machine (at /dev/dv1394/0), and it  
> works (i can cat the stream to a file and play it with mplayer),  
> but it is absent from the vic devices list and doing -D /dev/ 
> dv1394/0 doesn't seem to do anything (I assume this was what was  
> meant by 'manually specifying the camera' in the documentation). I  
> have libiec61883-dev and as far as I know I compiled vic with that  
> support. I'm running Ubuntu Linux 6.10 (side note - I get a 404 for  
> http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/software/advideo/ 
> ubuntu.html)


Andrew,

The 404 should be corrected now.

That page has some timps about access to the /dev/raw1394 device  
which is what is needed in this case.

One other thing is to ensure the correct vic is actually being run -  
cd into thye vic directory and run:
	./vic ......
rather than just
	vic ......


chris


Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8350
QCIF Access Grid Manager
University of Queensland