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Re: problem capturing HDV: msg#00034

Subject: Re: problem capturing HDV
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Andrew Daviel wrote:

> I have a Sony HDR-HC3 camcorder connected to a RH9 Linux system
> (2.4.20-31.9) with a Belkin F5U501-APL card (ohci1394 driver)
///
> I tried libiec61883-1.0.0/examples/test-mpeg2 which I had read would
> read HDV, but it gives a SIGSEGV.
>
> Prior to that, "strace" throws up
>   ioctl(3, 0xc020231b, 0x804a6d4) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate
>  ioctl for device)

I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.32 and this error goes away; I presume extra
driver functions were added. test-mpeg2 now captures an MPEG2 stream
from the camera at 1080i.

I can use mplayer to create JPEGs from the MPEG2 stream and may script
this solution.


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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
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