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