Kino crash on firewire capture in FC8

[CaptainPuppydog]

Title says it all. I can't get kino to stay up consistently when I click the 'Capture' tab.

I've tried:
- disabling audio
- changing the audio source to /dev/dsp (to force it to use Pulseaudio's oss driver instead of Alsa, per a post I read somewhere yesterday)
- Changing Display to gdk or Xvideo
- changing the 'Show' option on the display tab to "Full Interlaced Frame" from "Deinterlaced linear blend" (sounds like some gnarly coffee brand...)
- various combinations of the above, usually done with root privs.
- Reloading system with virgin FC8 install (one drive of s/w raid was failing SMART...)

As yet, nothing has worked consistantly. What worked once didn't work a second time in a row. Unless some time had passed, or the camera was turned off & on (or dis-/re-connected). After the reload I captured the attached text after kino crashed twice. The first crash finishes differently than the second (and all subsequent ones)(and all the crashes I could recall from pre-reload), FWIW..

I'd really like to get it running (or cinelerra, but it seems fixated on libx264.so.55 instead of fc8's .56 -- argh. that's a whole other pain right there...).

Thoughts/Comments/Fixes (not necessarily in that order, of course... ;-) )

CPD

[Datu Puti]

sigh... i have the same problem, and it's driving me nuts! i hope someone knows how to fix this - if i find out, i'll be sure to post what i did. i have found sound disappears from time to time in f8 and i'm hoping a big improvement to pulseaudio stability is on its way. in the meantime, if anyone has a workaround for kino firewire capture, please toss us a link or something

-dan

[bowens44]

I'm not sure if this well help you but my camcorder doesn't work with the firewire stack in F7 or f8. I resolved the issue by blacklisting the default firewire stack and installing the old stack that is available on atrpms.

Here's a link to my original thread on my kino problems:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=172639

[Datu Puti]

actually bowens44, your post/thread is how i got this far to begin with. i did all the same stuff you did and then when i got to this stage, i would have kino crash as soon as i tried to initiate a capture. the cli output always listed the sound initialization as the source of the error.

but good news: it's fixed now!

i was able to successfully capture from my samsung mini dv camcorder after i changed the sound settings to be all pulseaudio in the fedora/gnome sound configs, and set the kino sound setting from 'default' to '/dev/dsp'. so i really don't know why this hasn't worked for CPD, but it did work for me and i can finally use my new camcorder - which incidentally seems to not work in windows xp on the same computer . once again fedora comes through, but sure makes you work for it first.

-dan