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Hi

I have a fireware aquiring-box.

It works, I can aquire movie ecc ecc with kino or DVgrab.

I execute the following lines to use it (found on forum):
modprobe raw1394
modprobe video1394
test -e /dev/raw1394 || mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 (this line only the first time)

Now I'd need to use my box with others application ( gambas,xawtv ).
I tried with /dev/raw1394 ( Am I right ? ) but an error shows up.


If I try :
# cat /dev/raw1394 > /root/avi.avi
cat: /dev/raw1394: Invalid argument

I think I'm missing only a little thing, so If anyone could help me ......

Thanks in advance
Hi

No one wants help me ???

It's not a question of not willing, but mere a lack of knowledge how to help.
I use Firewire but as a eth1394 connection. Not quite the same.
So I can't help with either, but saying try through puppy google search at http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

giac_fab, I have been away from the forum for two weeks. I had kdenlive up and running and lost it and now cant get it back again. Been trying for two weeks. Only just seen this one, think I can help. You say you can already grab video with kino, so you should already be past this step . This is what I have to do after every 'wipe' and reload of Puppy, and thats quite often when trying to run kdenlive in Puppy. Try doing a mknod of dev/video as well. (and didnt it take some googleing, remember google is your friend, bovine poo, google is not your friend untill you know exactly what to put in the search box)

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> The first step seems to be to ensure all related 1394 modules are
> loaded, and they are all loaded.
So I suppose you did something like this:
/sbin/modprobe raw1394
/sbin/modprobe dv1394
So they should be created with:
mknod /dev/raw1394 c 171 0
mknod /dev/video1394 c 172 0
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