When I click File>Record then I see a two screens; Recording and Video In
The Record window immediately starts the Position timer clock; starts counting and I can not stop it; I end up having to reboot or Killing the process. When I click Close stop without pasting into project nothing happens.
The Video In screen does allow me to control the sony camera; play, stop, rewind ect; however, the Video In screen is black; no image appears.
Andrew-R suggested trying another compression type (say rawdv and not ffmpeg-based).
Terje suggests:
An option to transfer dv files via ieee 1394 is using dvgrab and possibly ffmpeg
I have not used it myself for several years since the time of Kino, but dvgrab is still available (v. 3.5)
Meanwhile I will review the procedure to see if I can successfully test a similar setup.
Reviewing Capture and Record from camcorders again, I just wonder:
In preferences Record, did you try Video IN Record driver DV 1394 only, or also IEC 61883 ?
I dont know why DV 1394 is kept, because according to google AI:
IEEE 1394 (FireWire) is a physical interface standard for high-speed data transfer, while libiec61883 is a library that provides a higher-level API for streaming DV, MPEG-2, and audio data over Linux IEEE 1394. In essence, IEEE 1394 defines the hardware, and libiec61883 builds upon that to handle the application-level streaming of specific media types.
And from the ffmpeg documentation:
The iec61883 capture device supports capturing from a video device connected via IEEE1394 (FireWire), using libiec61883 and the new Linux FireWire stack (juju). This is the default DV/HDV input method in Linux Kernel 2.6.37 and later, since the old FireWire stack was removed.