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

["Andrew Ford" <acf0659@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Chris, sending DV seems to work fine now. The problem now is that when I try and receive it (on another machine) the receiving vic hard freezes (there's the listing for the video with a black thumbnail, and the window is completely frozen - I have to kill the process to stop it). I'll attempt to leave the stream sending (to RIT's AG multicast video address, 
224.2.224.225/20002) over the weekend, so if anyone could try receiving it, that would be awesome.

--Andrew

On 5/24/07, Christoph Willing <willing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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


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