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DV camcorder serial transfer issues
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| Adam Wiseman 2002-06-24, 7:13 pm |
| I'm running ML8.2.
My Samsung DV camcorder came with a small piece of Windows software that
allows me to transfer still photos from the camcorder via a serial
connection. I've successfully gotten the program to execute with Wine, and
I can even control the camcorder (Play, Stop, FF, REW, etc.) with the
software's built in control functions, but when I click "Transfer" to
capture the still shot on the camera to my HD, it gives me an error message
saying can't transfer data or something like that. I've tried the obvious,
like
[root@************ adam]# chmod a+rw -v /dev/ttyS0
mode of `/dev/ttyS0' changed to 0666 (rw-rw-rw-)
But even though it says it has changed the rw permissions, it never really
does, as evidenced by:
[root@************ adam]# ls -l /dev/ttyS0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jun 23 06:53 /dev/ttyS0 -> tts/0
I've done the same for ttyS1, too, with the same results. I've even gone so
far as to put my user in the tty group, to no avail.
How can I get this to work? Basically, it seems that I can go from the
computer to the camcorder just fine, but not the other way around. If it's
a port problem, how do I set it up right? Or could it just be a limitation
of Wine?
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| Oliver Kastler 2002-06-24, 7:13 pm |
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"Adam Wiseman" <maddys_daddy@go.com>
> I'm running ML8.2.
> My Samsung DV camcorder came with a small piece of Windows software that
> allows me to transfer still photos from the camcorder via a serial
> connection. I've successfully gotten the program to execute with Wine, and
> I can even control the camcorder (Play, Stop, FF, REW, etc.) with the
> software's built in control functions, but when I click "Transfer" to
> capture the still shot on the camera to my HD, it gives me an error message
> saying can't transfer data or something like that. I've tried the obvious,
> like
It would help if you could post the entire error message.
> [root@************ adam]# chmod a+rw -v /dev/ttyS0
> mode of `/dev/ttyS0' changed to 0666 (rw-rw-rw-)
>
> But even though it says it has changed the rw permissions, it never really
> does, as evidenced by:
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> [root@************ adam]# ls -l /dev/ttyS0
> lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Jun 23 06:53 /dev/ttyS0 -> tts/0
>
> I've done the same for ttyS1, too, with the same results. I've even gone so
> far as to put my user in the tty group, to no avail.
> How can I get this to work? Basically, it seems that I can go from the
> computer to the camcorder just fine, but not the other way around. If it's
> a port problem, how do I set it up right? Or could it just be a limitation
> of Wine?
You can control the camcorder from linux, I dont think that theres a problem with
the serial connection. Maybe your filesystem wont let you write the files? Have
you checked the permissions of the folder you want to write the images to?
Olli
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| Adam Wiseman 2002-06-24, 7:13 pm |
| Oliver Kastler wrote:
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> "Adam Wiseman" <maddys_daddy@go.com>
>> I'm running ML8.2.
>> My Samsung DV camcorder came with a small piece of Windows software that
>> allows me to transfer still photos from the camcorder via a serial
>> connection. I've successfully gotten the program to execute with Wine,
>> and I can even control the camcorder (Play, Stop, FF, REW, etc.) with the
>> software's built in control functions, but when I click "Transfer" to
>> capture the still shot on the camera to my HD, it gives me an error
>> message
>> saying can't transfer data or something like that. I've tried the
>> obvious, like
>
> It would help if you could post the entire error message.
>
<snip>
The actual error message is a Windows style message box (indicating it's an
error coming from the Photoland software) saying "Unable to get image data
from device. Please check your device." Of course it works fine under
Winblows, but I don't want to use winblows just for this program.
Thanks,
Adam
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| Oliver Kastler 2002-06-24, 7:13 pm |
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"Adam Wiseman" <maddys_daddy@go.com>
> Oliver Kastler wrote:
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> >
> > "Adam Wiseman" <maddys_daddy@go.com>
> >> I'm running ML8.2.
> >> My Samsung DV camcorder came with a small piece of Windows software that
> >> allows me to transfer still photos from the camcorder via a serial
> >> connection. I've successfully gotten the program to execute with Wine,
> >> and I can even control the camcorder (Play, Stop, FF, REW, etc.) with the
> >> software's built in control functions, but when I click "Transfer" to
> >> capture the still shot on the camera to my HD, it gives me an error
> >> message
> >> saying can't transfer data or something like that. I've tried the
> >> obvious, like
> >
> > It would help if you could post the entire error message.
> >
> <snip>
>
> The actual error message is a Windows style message box (indicating it's an
> error coming from the Photoland software) saying "Unable to get image data
> from device. Please check your device." Of course it works fine under
> Winblows, but I don't want to use winblows just for this program.
Have you checked your log-file? Maybe theres a hint. Sorry, no more ideas...
Olli
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