[vlc] vlc camcorder (firewire) streaming on a laptop

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Sudhi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to stream video from Sony DCR-HC96 camcorder connected to
> a lenovo T61 laptop through the 4-pin firewire interface. I followed
> instructions given on
> http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Stream_from_a_DV_Camcorder
> with no luck.
> 
> I checked that the modules video1394, dv1394, raw1394, ohci1394,
> ieee1394 have all loaded. The devices /dev/raw1394, /dev/video1394/0
> are also created. Moreover, I am able to see the video in kino. dmesg
> also shows the camera status whenever it is connected/disconnected.
> 
> I tried with the same camcorder on a desktop with a 6-pin PCI firewire
> interface and I was able to do VLC streaming by piping output from
> dvgrab (for eg., dvgrab - | vlc - ...). However on the laptop, dvgrab
> returns with "Error: no camera exists" error.
> 
> Could anyone please help me with this.

If dvgrab doesn't like/see the camera, then it sure is not a vlc 
problem. Unfortunately without the firewire camera it is not possible to 
help you solving this.

Gtz
Jean-Paul Saman.