Re: [ubuntu-uk] digital camcorder

2006-12-20 Thread norman
With a great deal of help from my son the problem appears to have been solved. What I did was to change the line in Kino - Edit - Preferences - IEEE 1394 labelled dv1394 Device to /dev/dv1394/0. Why this should work I have no idea but I have repeated the process of plugging the camera in several

Re: [ubuntu-uk] digital camcorder

2006-12-19 Thread norman
snip if lsmod | grep raw1394 lists anything then the module is loaded and the permissions on /dev/raw are incorrect. sudo chmod 777 /dev/rawwill give you the necessary permissions, although you'll have to set this manually each time you restart your computer and wish to use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] digital camcorder

2006-12-18 Thread James Tait
norman wrote: Having recently changed from 6.06.1 to 6.10 I am not able to capture my videos using Kino as I used to. Could someone please advise me on either, what I can try to get Kino working again or, failing that, recommend some other application to do the job. Thanks I can only share my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] digital camcorder

2006-12-18 Thread James Tait
James Tait wrote: IEEE1394 adapter to work. In the output from dmesg, I saw an error along the lines of nobody cared, try using irqpoll (apologies, I don't have the exact message available now as I've cured, or at least worked around the problem), which is exactly what I did -- I supplied the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] digital camcorder

2006-12-18 Thread norman
snip I am totally ignorant about this sort of thing therefore, have no idea what this means. However, I did dmesg and have extracted the following:- [17180162.704000] ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[0800460104be71fb] [17180162.852000] ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device

Re: [ubuntu-uk] digital camcorder

2006-12-18 Thread norman
snip I can only share my own experiences here, but hopefully they will be of some use to you. snip If you wanted to try an alternative to Kino, purely for getting the DV data from the camcorder onto your machine for later processing, you could try dvgrab. As for video editing, I'm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] digital camcorder

2006-12-18 Thread Adam Bagnall
norman wrote: Having recently changed from 6.06.1 to 6.10 I am not able to capture my videos using Kino as I used to. Could someone please advise me on either, what I can try to get Kino working again or, failing that, recommend some other application to do the job. Thanks Norman Are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] digital camcorder

2006-12-18 Thread norman
Thanks for responding. snip Are there any error messages appearing in Kino? You need the raw1394 kernel module loaded with the correct permissions to grab from dv IIRC. Add raw1394 to /etc/modules Unless I am being stupid I cannot find /etc/modules but there is /etc/modutils. Please

Re: [ubuntu-uk] digital camcorder

2006-12-18 Thread norman
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 20:27 +, Adam Bagnall wrote: norman wrote: Thanks for responding. snip Are there any error messages appearing in Kino? You need the raw1394 kernel module loaded with the correct permissions to grab from dv IIRC. Add raw1394 to /etc/modules

Re: [ubuntu-uk] digital camcorder

2006-12-18 Thread Adam Bagnall
norman wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 20:27 +, Adam Bagnall wrote: norman wrote: Thanks for responding. snip Are there any error messages appearing in Kino? You need the raw1394 kernel module loaded with the correct permissions to grab from dv IIRC. Add