Hey,

Does kdenlive support HDV playback via the capture window? I can control my camera from the app, but the window doesn't show any video (and also doesn't record anything) so I'm forced to watch the playback via the LCD on the camera. I'm wondering if this is a driver issue. I can capture videos fine through dvgrab, albeit cumbersome. Here are some details about my setup:

PC

- Dell Inspiron 1150

- Intel Extreme Graphics II (64mb video chip)

- P4 2.8GHz

- 512MB of RAM

- Slackware 12.0

Kden & Related

- Kdenlive 0.5

- dvgrab 3.1

- FFmpeg version SVN-r11316 (nightly build from Dec/07)

- libavutil 49.6

- libavcodec 51.49

- libavformat 52.3

- libdv 1.0

IEEE 1394

- libavc1394 0.5.3

- libiec61883 1.1.0

- libraw1394 1.3.0

And perhaps one other important detail, I see this logged a lot by the system when trying to record/play HDV from the camera:

ohci1394: fw-host0: IR DMA error - packet too long for buffer

From what I've searched, it seemed to be an issue with the camera hardware and IEEE driver protocol miscommunicating.

Dan, the maintainer of MLT, is using (or planning to buy) an HV20.

Maybe you should get in touch with him.

This cam is a revolution, Kdenlive should support it.

Dvdgrap 3.0 normally supports the HV20.

Canon HV20 is fully supported, including dvgrab capture.

Read: http://www.kdenlive.org/video-editor/canon-hv20

Hi

I have the hv30, the newer version of the hv20, the hv20 no longer available new. But I gave up trying to capture via kdenlive it kept putting the camera on pause or disconnecting, probably me not using kdenlive correctly so I just capture command line with dvgrab instead setting my own options and that works.

Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 32bit.

Hi Diffid

I have a canon HV20 and have no problem at all in the capture of footage,

you must follow the (how to install Kdenlive) or it will not work!

1 Go to home page

2 click on to user manual

3 downloading and installing Kdenlive

4 Installing from Source

5 Installing the Required Libraries

Print of the list . I use pacman as a distribution

You should be able to capture from your HV30 with a bit of luck, have a go its well worth it

Godwit

Which version of Kdenlive? Ubuntu still publishe Kdenlive 0.5 or 0.6 which are deprecated. Ubuntu packager still have not understood that we do not recommend Kdenlive 0.5.

Grabing the HV30 only works using Kdenlive SVN or Kdenlive 0.7.1. So wait for Kdenlive 0.7.1 release. I will take care of validating packages.

I use opensuse 11, KDE 4 Kdenlive 0.7.1 sorry if i have misled other people it wont happen again. Godwit

Have you tried to turn on the camera AFTER starting the capture dialog?

That did the trick with my HV20

It happens that I have a Canon HV20 and I shot this tutorial a few week ago:

http://www.kdenlive.org/tutorial/kdenlive-howto-capture-video-firewire

At least, this demonstrates that Kdenlive 0.7.1 supports firewire capture from Canon HV20.