Using DV camera with SuSE 9.2

foxy123 · 01-07-2005, 04:41 AM

According to the manual it should be very easy. Plugin your camera, install gtkam and everything should be fine. As usual in reality it is much more complicated. I should admit that in WIndoz it was fine apart from the fact that I spent few hours looking for the driver for my JVC GR-DVL355 for XP. The CD I have with the camera comtained only Win98 drivers. But as soon as I installed the driver, I had it in My Computer.

In Linux the story is a bit different. When I pluged in the camera using USB port and swithced it on, nothing happened. I am not sure about details, but I thing I rebooted the PC and then clicked on suseplugger where I found the camera under Disk section as JVC DV Camera, which was very nice.

OK, I tried to configure it, clicking on an appropriate button, but had YaST Expert Partitioner. I had no idea what to do with it. So I quit it.

Then I read somewhere that I have to have gtkam, and I installed it. After running gtkam &, I had the programme frozen, so I closed it, tried again, had no luck either and rebooted.

Well, when KDE was loaded I had two gtkams running and a nice icon in My Computer called something like USB drive or camera. Clicking on it I had

Code:

"Could not enter folder /media/usb-JVC-DVCamera:0:0:0p1."

After several attempts I switched the camera off and the icon as well as folder in /media disappeared for good. Neither switching on the camera, nor running gtkam, nor even rebood did not help. I lost it. I still have JVC DL Camera in suseplugger and gtkam no longer hangs on start up, but stil I cannot get the camera mounted saving I cannot access the pictures on memory card.

Can anyone help me with it?

kpkeerthi · 01-07-2005, 01:54 PM

Did you try kino ( Kino Home Page). Looks promising. But I haven't tried yet. Search for Kino in YaST and install it.

Hope it helps.

tvphil · 01-07-2005, 09:21 PM

Does your camcorder have a firewire port and/or firewire cable? This would work much better than a usb cable for video. If you download Kino from http://packman.links2linux.org (version 0.7.5 for suse 9.2), install with YaST, you could use the firewire connection. Then go to www.linuxjournal.com/article/7615 for instructions on how to configure Kino for video input and output via firewire. I use Kino a lot, it's great, but it was a little tricky to install the dv titler plug in for making titles. If all you have is usb, I think you're going to have a hard time finding a way load and edit what you shoot. I only use usb for my printer and my digital still camera. Hope this helps!

foxy123 · 01-08-2005, 01:52 AM

wel, actually I am using USB, because I do not have a firewire port in my PC. I want to d/l still pictures from a memory card rather than capture video.

MuzikQuest · 01-08-2005, 04:11 AM

same problem here. I also have USB and can't get it to work. I though would like to capture video, rather than stills. Right now I use a friend's Windows XP box in order to catch video from my DV, but that can't of course be the final solution.

foxy123 · 01-08-2005, 04:29 PM

this is from dmesg:

Code:

SCSI subsystem initialized
st: Version 20040403, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: JVC       Model: DV CAMERA         Rev: 0000
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
SCSI device sda: 15680 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 32 02 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device cec68c00(sit0)
 sda:<6>eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
 sda1
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.

The icon in My Computer called USB Hard Disc (/dev/sda1) is Unmounted Hard Disk Partition. Why is it 'unmounted'? I tried to mount it using

Code:

mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb-JVC-DVCamera:0:0:0p1

but got

Code:

mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

Any help? Please...

Brian1 · 01-08-2005, 04:41 PM

What is the output from the following commands

fdisk -l
cat /proc/scsi/scsi

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foxy123 · 01-08-2005, 04:53 PM

Quote:

fdisk -l

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         765     6144831    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1307        9729    67657747+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3             766         829      514080   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4             830        1306     3831502+  83  Linux
/dev/hda5            1307        5875    36700461    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda6            5876        9729    30957223+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Quote:

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Code:

ttached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: JVC      Model: DV CAMERA        Rev: 0000
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Brian1 · 01-08-2005, 05:02 PM

Okay it is seen try this mount command. I missed something in an above post.

Code:

 mount /dev/sda /media/usb-JVC-DVCamera

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foxy123 · 01-08-2005, 05:06 PM

Quote:

mount /dev/sda /media/usb-JVC-DVCamera

Code:

mount: mount point /media/usb-JVC-DVCamera does not exist

Quote:

mount /dev/sda /media/usb-JVC-DVCamera:0:0:0p1

Code:

mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device

Brian1 · 01-08-2005, 05:11 PM

Is there any /dev/sd* or /dev/sg* devices. ' ls /dev/sd* ' ' ls /dev/sg* '

foxy123 · 01-08-2005, 05:17 PM

very many /dev/sd* and 16 /dev/sg*

Brian1 · 01-08-2005, 05:19 PM

try this mount

Code:

mount /dev/sg0 /media/usb-JVC-DVCamera:0:0:0p1

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foxy123 · 01-08-2005, 05:23 PM

it still says mount: /dev/sg0 is not a block device

Brian1 · 01-08-2005, 05:32 PM

What does the command ' lsmod ' say.

Brian1