Hello,

I am a new user of Kdenlive and new to these forums. I am having issues getting Kdenlive to recognise my Canon Elura50 DV camcorder over firewire.

I am using the latest version of Kdenlive which I downloaded last night and installed on my 32-Bit Ubuntu 8.10 system. The installation went very smooth and Kdenlive looks very impressive but at the moment I can't even get started with editing as I can't capture the video from my camera.

Before attempting to use Kdenlive I had previously (last night) also tried Kino. I had to start Kino as root (bug with the Ubuntu 8.10 version I beleive) but it didn't recognise my camera at first so I had to do the 'gksudo modprobe raw1394 dv1394' trick before it would recognise it.  After that I was able to recognize my camera ok. With Kino I had the problem however that I couldn't save the captured video to a file. So I abandoned Kino and deciode to try Kdenlive.

I read about some group/policy tweaks to get dvgrab to work, but I don't know if this applies to Ubuntu 8.10 or to Kdenlive.

I am wondering if there are any similar 'tricks' which I need to do when using Kdenlive in order for it to recognise my camera?

I did read somewhere that for Linux to recognise a Firewire device you should have it playing before you plug it in, is that correct?

Finally: after installing Kdenlive last night, my Ubuntu box now tells me that package updates are available. These look to be related to the packages which were installed as part of the Kdenlive install. Is it safe to let my package manager update these packages or is it likely to break Kdenlive?

thanks in advance for your help.

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I installed kdenlive using the binary package install for Ubuntu 8.10. I found the instructions at the following URL ..

kdenlive.org/user-manual/downloading-and-installing-kdenlive/pre-compiled-packages/ubuntu-packages

I am a novice Linux user and do not feel confident to compile from source, even though I read of one user who had to do this in order to get his camcorder to be recogised by kdenlive

I discovered that in order for Kdenlive to recognise my camcorder over firewire, I had to change the permissions of the /dev/raw1394 ..

  sudo chmod 666 /dev/raw1394

I know that this is a documented bug but against Gutsy, I didn't know that it was still necessary when using Intrepid.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdenlive/+bug/1554

Does anyone know if there is a way of getting the permissions set correctly automatically, or am I going to do this manually every time I connect my camcorder?

(/dev/raw1394 only exists after I have connected my camcorder)

thanks

Can you try following these guidelines:

http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/troubleshooting-and-common-problems/troubleshooting-firewire-capture