How do I capture video from my Panasonic PV-GS80 over firewire?

[Luke Turner]

How do I capture video from my Panasonic PV-GS80 over firewire?

Computer: DELL Optiplex 960 MT 8GB RAM

OS: Ubuntu 16.04

FireWire Card: Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller

Camcorder: Panasonic PV-GS80 (ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/camcorder/om/pv-gs85_mul_om.pdf)

[october262]

See here - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FireWire/DigitalVideo

[Luke Turner]

Thanks for your help. But the instructions on that page did not work.

Here is what I typed in my terminal:

luke@ExistenceUBUNTU:~$ sudo apt-get install dvgrab (Didn't do Kino 'cause I knew I already had it.)
[sudo] password for luke: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
dvgrab is already the newest version (3.5-2).
dvgrab set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  geoclue-2.0 libgeoclue-2-0 libgsound0 linux-headers-4.4.0-36
  linux-headers-4.4.0-36-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-38
  linux-headers-4.4.0-38-generic linux-image-4.4.0-36-generic
  linux-image-4.4.0-38-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-36-generic
  linux-image-extra-4.4.0-38-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
luke@ExistenceUBUNTU:~$ sudo ln /dev/fw0 /dev/raw1394
ln: failed to access '/dev/fw0': No such file or directory
luke@ExistenceUBUNTU:~$ sudo chmod 664 /dev/raw1394
chmod: cannot access '/dev/raw1394': No such file or directory
luke@ExistenceUBUNTU:~$

Perhaps I'm close. Maybe I just need to create some folders somewhere?

[Hoser Rob]

There aren't that many linux users here ... your thread is the newest thing on the Linux section of this board since August.

I do use mint, which is ubuntu based, but I don't know much about firewire capture and I don't use the Mint version that's 16.04 based. However, those instructions you got from that link from help.ubuntu is for 12.04. Backwards compatibility doesn't work in Linux like it does in Windoze. You can't try solutions from earlier or later releases and expect them to work.

You'd probably be better off at the Ubuntu support sites:

ubuntuforums.org

askubuntu.com

[bewerbung]

Using dvgrab to capture Digital Video

After you have installed dvgrab you should be able to capture by using the commandline. Simply go to your terminal and type in dvgrab, and ther you it, it is capturing in the current folder. If you want to specify the output, have a look at the dvgrab subpage