odvr on mac

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Hi,
these is my experience with your software and my Olympus VN-600PC on an
Intel based MacBook:

I have compiled and installed libusb and libsndfile without any problem
then compiled odvr succesfully with make; tried to do a sudo make install
but with errors (for example there is no root group, and no /etc/udev...)
so I've simply manually copied it in /usr/local/bin and run as root (sudo)

the good news is that odvr -l display coorectly the contents of my VN-600PC :-)

but when I launch "odvr -d a" to download the files it says:

Model: 600PC
Downloading "DA_0053.wav"...
Error downloading "DA_0053.wav": unhandled quality
Downloading "DA_0057.wav"...
Error downloading "DA_0057.wav": unhandled quality

and so on.... so tried to record another file with XHQ quality instead of
HQ and it says:

Model: 600PC
Downloading "DB_0095.wav"...
Error downloading "DB_0095.wav":

so I can read the list of content but can't download any wav from the
device.... any idea?

thanks
alessio

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alessi...@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2008 at 9:19

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PPC Mac?

Original comment by tristan....@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2008 at 2:34

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no... intel based macbook...

Original comment by alessi...@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2008 at 6:27

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Whoops, sorry! I skipped over the "Intel" part. Can you post the output of this:

$ odvr -l -D

I want to see the packet dumps. I suspect the 600PC has different firmware 
rather
than being a Mac issue.

Original comment by tristan....@gmail.com on 16 Jul 2008 at 4:11

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sorry for the delay.... here is the output of the command...

thanks :-)
alessio

Original comment by alessi...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2008 at 8:12

Attachments:

• odvr_output.txt

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Well, that confirms it; your model has a unseen quality setting. The only 
quality
numbers I've encountered are 0, 1, 2, and others have encountered 8 (XHQ on the
VN-xxxx). What quality have you recorded at on your VN-600? Have you tried 
recording
in different quality settings?

Original comment by tristan....@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2008 at 8:16

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Heh, I clearly haven't read my own code in too long. Quality 7 is a known 
quality,
but it's *not* supported. Try recording in XHQ on your VN-600.

Original comment by tristan....@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2008 at 8:20

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I had already tried with xhq as written in my first post.... as you can see the 
error
in this case is different: using xhq it says something like

Error downloading "DB_0095.wav":

instead of something like

Error downloading "DA_0057.wav": unhandled quality

as it does in case of hq.


Anyway in case it can be useful for you I send in attachment the output of

odvr -l -D
odvr -d b -D

after making an xhq recording in folder B (file 97).


ciao :)
alessio

Original comment by alessi...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2008 at 8:19

Attachments:

• odvr_l_D.txt
• odvr_d_b_D.txt

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Odd, everything looks ok, but no data is transferred. Your VN600 responds to 
the 0x18
opcode (open a file), and acks the 0x80 opcode, but it doesn't send the 
associated data.

Not sure how to fix this one. Try starting a Windows VM and running a USB 
packet dump
with the official software.

Original comment by tristan....@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2008 at 11:16

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what do you mean with running an USB packet dump? (anyway I have not any 
Windows VM
but I can boot Windows through boot camp.... and can use the official software 
there)

Original comment by alessi...@gmail.com on 21 Jul 2008 at 7:38

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Something like this tool: http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbsnoop/

Basically, you run that tool and then run the official software. What it 
generates is
a packet log, and hopefully it'll tell me where odvr differs.

Original comment by tristan....@gmail.com on 26 Jul 2008 at 8:00

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I made two logs with SnoopyPro 0.22 and the official olympus software on WinXP
(booted through boot camp); you'll find them in attachment and below the 
descriptions:

1.usblog
after installing the SnoopyPro filter on the VN600 I have simply connected the 
device
to USB, waited for the Digiltal Wave Player to load and then clicked on recorder
folder A to see how many recordings are there (2 files) then disconnected the 
device.

2.usblog
connected the device, waited for the Digital Wave Player to load then simply 
click on
the button A to download all files from device folder A (two files: number 99 
and
100), then, after downloading was complete, disconnected the device from USB.

feel free to ask for more logs if you need...
thanks
alessio

Original comment by alessi...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2008 at 8:42

Attachments:

• 1.usblog
• 2.usblog

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P.S. the two files in folder A are both XHQ

Original comment by alessi...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2008 at 8:43

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I finally get some time to look at the log, and I can't open them! Nuts.

Please open and export these logs as XML. Reason being: I have some scripts 
that help
me read the logs.

Original comment by tristan....@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2008 at 3:52

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here they are...

Original comment by alessi...@gmail.com on 10 Aug 2008 at 8:16

Attachments:

• 1.xml
• 2.xml

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I say sorry for asking one more question about VN-600-PC and even more I don't 
know
if is  this the right way to do it.
Anyway do you have ANY news about dawnload file in in the following format HQ, 
SP LP
Thank you.

Original comment by lucio.pi...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2008 at 1:22

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I have tried odvr on Mac OSX 10.5.6 with a VN-3100PC.  Listing the contents of 
the
device works, however download results in the following error:

$ sudo odvr -rd a
Resetting...
Model: 3100PC
Downloading "DA_0014.wav"...
Error downloading "DA_0014.wav": failed to read DVR status code (-1): 
usb_bulk_read:
An error occured during read (see messages above)
Downloading "DA_0015.wav"...
Error downloading "DA_0015.wav": bulk write of 64 bytes to EP2 failed with code 
-6:
usb_bulk_write: An error occured during write (see messages above)
Downloading "DA_0016.wav"...
Error downloading "DA_0016.wav": bulk write of 64 bytes to EP2 failed with code 
-6:
usb_bulk_write: An error occured during write (see messages above)

I have just downloaded the audio files on the device using a fresh minimal 
install of
Ubuntu Intrepid in Parallels on OSX with odvr_0.1.4.1_i386.deb.   After a 
couple of
segfaults the download eventually worked fine.

Back on the Mac - I already have MacPorts installed on the system and used that 
to
install libusb and libsndfile:

  sudo port install libusb libsndfile

Then check out the source from the repo:

  svn checkout http://odvr.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ odvr-read-only

Edit the Makefile.  This is the diff

$ svn diff Makefile
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
--- Makefile    (revision 10)
+++ Makefile    (working copy)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 CC=gcc
-CFLAGS=-g -O2 -Wall
+CFLAGS=-g -O2 -Wall -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib
 LDFLAGS=
 LIBS=-lusb -lsndfile -lm
 BINS=odvr odvr.x86 odvr-gui
 TICONS=TBA TBB TBC TBD TBS TBT
 FICONS=FCA FCB FCC FCD FCS
 ICONS=$(TICONS) $(FICONS)
-X86LIBS=-L$(HOME)/build/lib32
+X86LIBS=-L/opt/local/lib
 PREFIX=/usr/local
 SYSCONFDIR=/etc
 VERSION=0.1.4.1-cml

Then "make odvr".  The binary builds fine.

Finally - run the command (odvr -rd a -D) to generate the attached debug output.

Hope this helps.

Original comment by jinn.kor...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2009 at 2:24

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• odvr_rd_a_D.txt

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Additional note to my previous post...

$ uname -a
Darwin dagda.local 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 
2008;
root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386

$ sudo port info libusb
libusb @0.1.12, Revision 1 (devel)

$ sudo port info libsndfile
libsndfile @1.0.17, Revision 1 (audio)

A newer version of libusb is not available for OSX yet.

Original comment by jinn.kor...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2009 at 3:54

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I get the same results as jinn.koriech here.

Similar setup:
$ uname -a
Darwin Les-iMac.local 9.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0: Tue Mar 31 22:52:17 PDT
2009; root:xnu-1228.12.14~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 iMac7,1 Darwin

I use fink.
$ fink info libusb
libusb-0.1.12-1015 ...

$ fink info libsndfile1
libsndfile1-1.0.20-1 ...

Similar build process (I change /opt/local to /sw for fink when patching the 
Makefile)
I can list the files fine, but downloading fails.

Original comment by les.bo...@gmail.com on 24 Jul 2009 at 9:09

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• odvr_rd_a_D.txt

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Forgot to mention, I have a VN-4100PC. Works great on my OpenSUSE Linux box. 
Just
can't get my Mac to download.

Original comment by les.bo...@gmail.com on 24 Jul 2009 at 9:12

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Another attempt at use this on OSX with a VN-3100PC.  This time using OSX Snow
Leopard 10.6.2 on an Intel CoreDuo:

$ uname -a
Darwin pear 10.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov  3 10:37:10 PST 2009;
root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386

Using the Apple developer tools I have the following gcc with which all MacPorts
packages are installed.
$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-apple-darwin10
Configured with: /var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5646~6/src/configure --disable-checking
--enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++
--program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ --with-slibdir=/usr/lib
--build=i686-apple-darwin10 --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
--host=i686-apple-darwin10 --target=i686-apple-darwin10
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)

Using MacPorts I have libusb, libsndfile installed as before, however while 
trying to
compile odvr-1.5 I received errors about gtk+2, so that is also installed with 
MacPorts.

I then had errors locating usb.h during the compile.  The MacPorts libusb 
doesn't
install this, but I did find an OSX native version and so updated the Makefile 
to
include the containing folder and got past this error.

$ svn diff
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
--- Makefile    (revision 13)
+++ Makefile    (working copy)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 CC=gcc
-CFLAGS=-g -O2 -Wall
+CFLAGS=-g -O2 -Wall  -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib
-I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/include/pcap
 LDFLAGS=
 LIBS=-lusb -lsndfile -lm
 BINS=odvr odvr.x86 odvr-gui
 TICONS=TBA TBB TBC TBD TBS TBT
 FICONS=FCA FCB FCC FCD FCS
 ICONS=$(TICONS) $(FICONS)
-X86LIBS=-L$(HOME)/build/lib32
+X86LIBS=-L/opt/local/lib -L/Developer//SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/lib
 PREFIX=/usr/local
 SYSCONFDIR=/etc
 VERSION=0.1.5-cml

I'm not a developer, so the next error is where I get stuck.  I think they 
shouldn't
be too difficult to resolve though.

 $ make odvr
gcc -g -O2 -Wall  -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib
-I/Developer//SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/include/pcap `pkg-config gtk+-2.0 
--cflags`  
-c -o olympusdvr.o olympusdvr.c
olympusdvr.c: In function 'find_odvr':
olympusdvr.c:89: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_get_busses'
olympusdvr.c:89: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
olympusdvr.c:89: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
olympusdvr.c:90: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
olympusdvr.c:90: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
olympusdvr.c:91: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
olympusdvr.c:92: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
olympusdvr.c: In function 'try_usb_bulk_write':
olympusdvr.c:122: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_bulk_write'
olympusdvr.c:129: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_strerror'
olympusdvr.c: In function 'try_usb_bulk_read':
olympusdvr.c:144: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_bulk_read'
olympusdvr.c: In function 'odvr_open':
olympusdvr.c:221: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_init'
olympusdvr.c:222: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_find_busses'
olympusdvr.c:224: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_find_devices'
olympusdvr.c:228: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_open'
olympusdvr.c:228: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
olympusdvr.c:236: warning: implicit declaration of function 
'usb_claim_interface'
olympusdvr.c:239: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_close'
olympusdvr.c: In function 'odvr_close':
olympusdvr.c:277: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_reset'
olympusdvr.c: In function 'odvr_reset':
olympusdvr.c:309: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usleep'
olympusdvr.c: In function 'cmd_check':
olympusdvr.c:342: warning: implicit declaration of function 'usb_interrupt_read'
olympusdvr.c: In function 'odvr_save_raw':
olympusdvr.c:897: warning: implicit declaration of function 'write'
make: *** [olympusdvr.o] Error 1

I believe endianess/bytesex shouldn't be a question with OSX since it's roots 
are in
BSD and running on regular x86/amd64 hardware.

Original comment by jinn.kor...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2009 at 10:37

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Any luck with compiling on Apple OS X 10.6.x ? I have the same problem as 
jinn.koriech

Original comment by vlce...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2010 at 10:00

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Hi. I'm the one who started this. I very recently got around the problem by 
exchanging my VN-4100 for another Olympus -- the WS-500M -- in a rather 
complicated swap with a colleague. Anyway, .wma files can be uploaded to my Mac 
from the WS-500M in the same way as from a USB drive.

Unlike the VN-4100, the WS-500M doesn't come with playback software, but I just 
started testing what may be a better program, which is called Listen&Type.

Unlike the Olympus Digital Voice Player, Listen&Type allows you to transcribe 
without taking your hands off the keyboard. How it works wasn't immediately 
apparent to me, but I think I've figured it out. I've tried it with TextEdit 
and OpenOffice.org Writer. So far, so good.

Here's the Listen&Type link:

http://www.nattaworks.com/english.html

Cheers.

Pat

Original comment by roche....@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2010 at 3:24

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Tried again with a new machine. Still OS X 10.5 (10.5.8) and using fink for 
package management.

$ uname -a
Darwin xxxx.local 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 
2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

Same configuration as i tried above, gives identical results.

The problem seems to be related to libusb. Made some customizations to try to 
get this going. Compiled a newer libusb (version 1.0.8). For compatibility, 
compiled libusb-compat (version 0.1.3).

Compile is fine, no errors. i can list files, but still can't download.

Tried 'odvr -rd a -D' -- it hangs after trying to reset.
Had to manually reset by unplugging, then tried 'odvr -d a -D' (without the 
reset) and got an error "Error downloading "DA_0139_01.wav": failed to read DVR 
status code (-6): Device not configured"

Output in attachments.

I'd love to get this bug fixed and am willing to help with testing.

Original comment by les.bo...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2010 at 10:18

Attachments:

• odvr_rd_a_D.txt
• odvr_d_a_D.txt