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buccia
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 Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:09 am Post subject: Dropped frames during firewire capture |
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Hi,
I'm having problems capturing video from my digital camcorder, via firewire. I tried with both Kino and dvgrab. It drops many frames at regular intervals (every 128 frames, I think). If I select autosplit, it creates a new file every 128 captured frames, with many missing frames between successive files.
dvgrab produces errors such as:
| Code: | "dvgrab-001.avi": frame dropped: timecode 00:02:35.06 date 2006.01.15 20:05:51
This error means that the ieee1394 driver received an incomplete frame. |
I'm guessing that this is a problem with the 1394 interface and not kino/dvgrab. I've captured successfully in the past, but last time was many months ago and I've upgraded a lot of things since.
My setup:
Distro: Gentoo
Kernel: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7
Kino: 0.9.2
Dvgrab: 1.8
"lsmod | grep 1394" produces:
| Code: | dv1394 18140 0
raw1394 25532 2
ohci1394 32112 1 dv1394
ieee1394 87576 3 dv1394,raw1394,ohci1394 |
Grateful for any pointers. Thanks,
Buccia |
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DocReedSolomon
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:35 am Post subject: |
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could it be that DMA got disabled on your HDD?
what gives "hdparm -I /dev/hdx" (hdx = your hdd) |
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buccia
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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What a star!
It was the DMA. I enabled the sis5513 module in the kernel (appropriate for my mobo which was one of my recent upgrades) and now DMA is on by default. It now captures without a problem (and with the hdd showing much less activity). I'll have a good look at the hdparm howto to see what else I can learn.
Perhaps this also explains 1 or 2 other symptoms (system unresponsive when I transfer large files across home network, and cd/dvd burning a bit tempremental).
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DocReedSolomon
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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well, you are welcome! |
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