[PD] [GEM] pix_video, firewire, and linux ?

[Jaime Oliver]

have you tried coriander?
I know it is the way to make firewire cameras work in linux using
libdc, but had no luck interfacing with gem. it is something I've
putting off for a while,

J

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Mario Mora <maredmo at gmail.com> wrote:
> pure:dyne never has worked with firewire for me, but i have used dyne:bolic
> with firewire with great results, but i have tested only audio, dyne:bolic
> has GEM and i have used flawessly but not tried capturing video by firewire
> yet.
> Maybe you can try using dyne:bolic and using the "modules" of pure:dyne for
> puredata and GEM so you can get a newer version than dyne:bolic has inside,
> that's the way i have used pd+gem in dybe:bolic with no problems so far
>
>
> 2009/3/10 adrian goya <adrian.goya at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hello to all.
>>
>> I'm having problems trying to connect a unibrain's fire-i firewire board
>> camera in GEM. When I send a   [driver 1(    message and then   [device
>> /dev/video1394/0(   to pix_video i get :
>>
>> initializing: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>
>> If I send [driver 0(   message I get
>>
>> get capabilities: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>
>> The camera works under coriander no problem. I use it with openFrameworks
>> also. It doesn't work with dvgrab.  http://www.unibrain.com/Products/Vision
>> … e_i_BC.htm
>>
>> A sony minidv firewire camera does work with pix_video however.
>>
>> Since my Debian system is a mess I downloaded pure:dyne's leek and potato
>> to test the camera and had the same results. The miso version gave the same
>> results.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? I've searched the mail archives
>> and every resource I could think of. I'm new to linux so maybe I'm missing
>> some basic stuff. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Debian lenny/sid. Kernel 2.6.24
>>
>> thankyou.
>>
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