From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 29 16:16:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBFA16A41F for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:16:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0150543D48 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:16:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 16461 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2005 16:16:23 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Sep 2005 16:16:22 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id DA8FE3C; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:16:21 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: ds@daemonsecurity.com References: <433ACC3E.9090905@daemonsecurity.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 29 Sep 2005 12:16:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <433ACC3E.9090905@daemonsecurity.com> Message-ID: <44achvzw6i.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: fwcontrol: unknown format 0x1e X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:16:24 -0000 Erik N=F8rgaard writes: > I'm a newbie when it comes to firewire, in fact I have never had it > working because I never had a device to connect. Then recently I > bought a Canon MVX200 (PAL) video cam. But when trying to transfer the > video using fwcontrol as described in the man page I get: >=20 > charm# fwcontrol -R test.dv > (EAGAIN) > (EAGAIN) > fwcontrol: unknown format 0x1e I don't know anything about Firewire, and can't seem to get through to the specs, but a look at the code tells me that the only format that receive routine knows is CIP_FMT_DVCR (which happens to be zero).=20=20 You'll need someone who can figure out what the format you're getting means, and how to handle it. The recent comitters to the fwcontrol utility would be a good place to start.