I have just built Kdenlive-0.7.5 on a Slackware64 system. Kdenlive reports finding dvgrab version 3.4 in /usr/bin/. Dmesg reports:

ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0080880500a1b437]
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized

which seems to indicate that its found the camcorder (JVC GR-DVL157E).

However, when I click on "connect" in the record monitor window, I constantly get the message "not connected"!

I have Firewire selected, and DVraw as the capture format.

Its not a hardware issue, as the same setup works perfectly in Premiere Pro under windoze!

Anyone any ideas?

TIA,

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Pete

make sure you have the necessary permissions. From a terminal, try:

dvgrab -i

If you get an error about permissions, try changing them:

sudo chmod +r /dev/raw1394

That should solve the permission issue (but needs to be redone after each reboot, check your distro forum for a permanent solution)

Yes, that's it! It's creating the /dev/raw1394 device with root/root permissions!

Urgh! Now I've got to get my hands dirty in UDEV again.....!!!

Many thanks for the pointer!

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Pete

For anyone else using Slackware or any of its derivatives, here's what I had to do for a permanent fix:

1) Find the rules.d directory (in /lib/udev in recent versions (inc. 64 bit) - maybe in /etc/udev in older versions)

2) Open the file 50-udev-default.rules

3) Scroll down until you reach the firewire section.

4) Add this line: KERNEL=="raw1394", NAME="raw1394", GROUP="video"

5) Job done!

8-)

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Pete

I asked the same question, = http://www.kdenlive.org/forum/capturing-problem
Managaed to get around it though.

You only need chmod 666. The way to change udev rules can vary slightly from one distro to the next. If you just added the video group, then you should reboot to have udev register the device nodes using the new group. If after rebooting, a 'ls -l /dev/raw1394' does not show it belonging to the video group, then your edit to the udev rule is not correct for your distro.

Which distro are you using?