Video-editing on FreeBSD?

[Mikhail Teterin]

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 16:34, Anders Nordby wrote:
= For grabbing DV through FireWire, use the FreeBSD built-in program
= fwcontrol(8).

Does not work -- same symptomps as described in:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-firewire/2005-September/000384.html

(except the format is 0x20 in my case, whereas Erik's Canon was giving 0x1e).

Considering that his posting is unanswered for over a year now and the problem 
remains unsolved, the fwcontrol must be an unmaintained piece of software, 
whose author(s) no longer have interest in it. Indeed, the error comes from a 
file last edited in 2003...

Is there any other way? Thanks!

	-mi

P.S. Having patched fwcontrol as below, I'm able to get the data, but mplayer 
plays it as garbage and file(1) identifies it as merely "data". It is 
supposed to be Sony's HDV (16:9)...

--- fwdv.c      17 Apr 2003 03:38:03 -0000      1.5
+++ fwdv.c      1 Oct 2006 17:19:48 -0000
@@ -167,5 +167,5 @@
                ciph = (struct ciphdr *)(ptr + 1);      /* skip iso header */
                if (ciph->fmt != CIP_FMT_DVCR)
-                       errx(1, "unknown format 0x%x", ciph->fmt);
+                       warnx("unknown format 0x%x", ciph->fmt);
                ptr = (u_int32_t *) (ciph + 1);         /* skip cip header */
 #if DEBUG