Ubuntu 10.10 I followed instructions from another post to hopefully allow Kdenlive to capture video via. USB from my Sony Handycam DCR-SX44. I was unsuccessful. Maybe someone could point me in the right direction. I am trying to use usb and not firewire.


joe@MOBILE:~$ ls
Desktop Dropbox Music Templates XCF files
Documents examples.desktop Pictures Videos
Downloads kdenlive Public wordpress
joe@MOBILE:~$ mkdir mymovie
joe@MOBILE:~$ cd mymovie
joe@MOBILE:~/mymovie$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
usbhid 42030 0
hid 84710 1 usbhid
cryptd 8140 0
aes_x86_64 7936 1
aes_generic 27631 1 aes_x86_64
parport_pc 30086 0
ppdev 6804 0
binfmt_misc 7984 1
snd_hda_codec_idt 64699 1
joydev 11395 0
arc4 1497 2
snd_hda_intel 26115 2
snd_hda_codec 100919 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6660 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 89104 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
iwl3945 97307 0
snd_seq_midi 5932 0
i915 334529 4
snd_rawmidi 22207 1 snd_seq_midi
pcmcia 40944 0
iwlcore 146875 1 iwl3945
snd_seq_midi_event 7291 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 57512 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
drm_kms_helper 32836 1 i915
snd_timer 23850 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 6912 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
mac80211 267163 2 iwl3945,iwlcore
drm 206230 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
yenta_socket 24279 0
dell_wmi 3372 0
dell_wmi_aio 2097 0
pcmcia_rsrc 10357 1 yenta_socket
dell_laptop 6722 0
pcmcia_core 17677 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,pcmcia_rsrc
psmouse 62080 0
cfg80211 170485 3 iwl3945,iwlcore,mac80211
snd 64181 13 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
dcdbas 6910 1 dell_laptop
i2c_algo_bit 6208 1 i915
video 22176 1 i915
serio_raw 4910 0
soundcore 1240 1 snd
output 2527 1 video
snd_page_alloc 8588 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
intel_agp 32334 2 i915
lp 10201 0
parport 37032 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
firewire_ohci 24839 0
firewire_core 54327 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 1739 1 firewire_core
tg3 135768 0
joe@MOBILE:~/mymovie$ modprobe raw1394
FATAL: Error inserting raw1394 (/lib/modules/2.6.35-25-generic/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.ko): Operation not permitted
joe@MOBILE:~/mymovie$ chmod 777 /dev/raw1394
chmod: cannot access `/dev/raw1394': No such file or directory
joe@MOBILE:~/mymovie$ modprobe ohci1394
FATAL: Error inserting ohci1394 (/lib/modules/2.6.35-25-generic/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.ko): Operation not permitted
joe@MOBILE:~/mymovie$

'sudo' is required to load drivers and change dev permissions.