[PD] firewire camcorders and the never ending saga (ioctl issues)

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Jon Weisz wrote:
> After two weeks of debugging, i'm finally reduced to problems google can't
> help me with. I'm using a sony camcorder over Firewire and I've mounted
> devfs on /dev. This is on a freshly installed debian testing with the newest
> GEM(0.90-18) and puredata packages in Debian unstable. When I try the

> Any suggestions? I'm pretty much at my wits end here. Right now, all I'm

hmm...

do other applications work (like dvgrab) ?

is compiling the CVS version of gem an option for you ? (libdv-dev has 
changed after the gem-0.90 release, so günther had to hack gem a bit in 
order to compile...)

i'll check as soon as i can find a dv-cam lying around...


> trying to do is have the program display video from the Firewire camera.
> Once that works, I want to use PD to add effects like text overlay and
> reflecting the video across a vertical axis live in real-time. I think Gem
> and PD are the right tools to do that, but I can't seem to get over this

yes, these tasks should be _very simple and efficient_ with gem.

mfg.a.dsr
IOhannes