Re: Firewire / 1394 and camcorder help needed

On 2007-05-27 20:53, beowulf@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On May 27, 1:36 pm, "beow...@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <r.oeler...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Progress. Not sure if it mattered, but I added read and write
permission to /dev/raw1394 as root for all users. Had camera on,
firewire connected, ran kino, and I can click the A/V button in the
capture window and control the Canon XH-A1 VCR controls (rewind, play,
fast forward, etc). ...

Sigh. Well, I rebooted and now I can not see my camcorder showing up
anymore in kino, kino shows in status bar "No AV/C compliant cam
connected or not switched on?" Well the camorder is switched on, the
firewire cable is connected at both ends, and the device is set as it
was before to /dev/dv1494/0 Not sure why I could control my camera
before and can not now, why it showed up as a device before and now
does not.




Why don't you add yourself to the group video instead of open the raw device for
all?

They made some change somewhere in this, (I saw something somewhere) due to
a security problem to let users write to the raw1394 device, in the case you
also have firewire disks there, so they split it to a control device
for dvcont , and a video device for kino and others. Not sure about the details.

This will make it hard for kino to control your camera, so you will be forced
to rewind/start/stop the camera yourself.

Well, since I don't have this problem, I assume I still use the raw device
in kino , but maybe there will be a setuid wrapper or something later.

I think someone is working with a completely new 1394 layer, so this problems
should be solved.

I wonder what happened with the program dvgrab , it did all this work, and created timestamped files ready to drag&drop to kino, but in my opensuse10.2
it's just missing :-/

/birre
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