Hi, I spent sometime today trying to get the firewire to work in jauty to be able to capture from kdenlive. So I thought I might share with you the workaround.

first of all the raw1394 module doesn't load at startup or when you plug the camcorder:

type in the terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/modules

you'll be asked for your password, in the document that opens add at the end the three following lines (first one is probably enough):

raw1394

dv1394

video1394

this will ensure that the module is loaded on startup.

 

then you will need to have writing permission to the raw1394 file, do this by setting its group to video:

type in the terminal:

sudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules

and in the #firewire section add the following line:

KERNEL=="raw1394", GROUP="video"

reboot and your camcorder should be recognised by kdenlive and ready for capture.

 

enjoy video editing!

 

 

"it appear that your info doesn't allow to acquire DV by firewire because i need to do sudo chmod 666 /dev/raw1394 to able software to acquire DV"

setting the module is only to activates it.

you need to add the following line as mentioned before to get te rights to acquire:

KERNEL=="raw1394", GROUP="video"

 

for me the chmod way didn't work because the permissions were lost upon reboot.

and you need to add your user account to the video group 

i think you should be already part of the video group on a default jaunty install.. I didn't change anything about the group and it worked...

Thanks for the solution. May be, the same result can be achieved in a more "clean" way ?

>sudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules

Editing/creating a file in /etc/udev/rules.d seems to be a better option than modifying the lib default ruleset.

>and in the #firewire section add the following line:

>KERNEL=="raw1394", GROUP="video"

Giving it "disk" group (instead of video) would be a more consistant assignement since read/write access to raw1394 means full access to the bus (such as disks) and not only the camcoder.

KERNEL=="raw1394", GROUP="disk"

... as it was in previous versions of Ubuntu.

This issue is explained in our manual:
http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/troubleshooting-and-common-problems/troubleshooting-firewire-capture

YEAH!!!

No more Kino for me, I'm on 9.10 at the moment and now everything works! Wu-huu!

Now I'm 100% for KDENlive, rock und roll!