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Answer to: Record from MiniDV hangs; ieee 1394 camera capture not working

cincity — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:45:53 +0000

@ddevam I would import it first. I did it with kino (which is using dvgrab as far I remember) when I imported my miniDV recordings.

edit: I see Kino is dead for a long time. IMHO keep it basic and use dvgrab as @phylsmith2004 recommended.

In the next step you can prepare your footage and in another step import it into cinelerra and let the editing begin.

RE: Record from MiniDV hangs; ieee 1394 camera capture not working

terje — Mon, 26 May 2025 19:39:31 +0000

@phylsmith2004, @ddevan

Reviewing Capture and Record from camcorders again, I just wonder:

In preferences Record, did you try Video IN Record driver "DV 1394" only, or also "IEC 61883" ?

I don't know why DV 1394 is kept, because according to google AI:

IEEE 1394 (FireWire) is a physical interface standard for high-speed data transfer, while libiec61883 is a library that provides a higher-level API for streaming DV, MPEG-2, and audio data over Linux IEEE 1394. In essence, IEEE 1394 defines the hardware, and libiec61883 builds upon that to handle the application-level streaming of specific media types.

And from the ffmpeg documentation:

The iec61883 capture device supports capturing from a video device connected via IEEE1394 (FireWire), using libiec61883 and the new Linux FireWire stack (juju). This is the default DV/HDV input method in Linux Kernel 2.6.37 and later, since the old FireWire stack was removed.

https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-devices.html#iec61883

/Terje

Answer to: Record from MiniDV hangs; ieee 1394 camera capture not working

phylsmith2004 — Mon, 05 May 2025 22:59:58 +0000

@ddevan

Andrew-R suggested trying "another compression type (say rawdv and not ffmpeg-based)".

Terje suggests:

An option to transfer dv files via ieee 1394 is using dvgrab and possibly ffmpeg
I have not used it myself for several years since the time of Kino, but dvgrab is still available (v. 3.5)
https://blog.jonsdocs.org.uk/2020/11/25/transferring-data-from-a-minidv-camcorder-using-linux/

Meanwhile I will review the procedure to see if I can successfully test a similar setup.

Record from MiniDV hangs; ieee 1394 camera capture not working

ddevam — Mon, 05 May 2025 17:45:19 +0000

Hello; I'm on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

I have a firewire card installed; ieee1394

I have a sony miniDV camera connected.

When I click File>Record then I see a two screens; Recording and Video In

The Record window immediately starts the Position timer clock; starts counting and I can not stop it; I end up having to reboot or Killing the process. When I click "Close" stop without pasting into project nothing happens.

The Video In screen does allow me to control the sony camera; play, stop, rewind ect; however, the Video In screen is black; no image appears.

How do I fix both problems?