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Re: Connecting a video camera



> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:52:01AM -0500, Michael Peek wrote:
>> Hi debian gurus,
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out if I can download the video from a video
>> camera
>> onto my linux box.  It's a Sony DCR-H52, tape-based, and firewire
>> only.
>>
>> When I plug it in, I see the following in the log files:
>>
>> kernel: [89405.861315]: ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]
>> GUID[0800460103dcd08d]
>> kernel: [89405.861846]: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 ->
>> 0-01:1023
>> kernel: [89406.985364]: ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device
>> initialized
>>
>> But neither kino nor dvgrab seem to recognize that a camera is
>> connected.
>>
> Have you tried running these apps as root?  If that works, it would
> indicate a permissions problem.  Perhaps your user is not in the
> appropriate group.  (Check the owner/group/permissions of
> /dev/raw1394)
>
> -rob
>

I use dvgrab to capture real time video data, will also work if you
just play back a pre-recorded tape on the camera too, but I need to
be root for this, so as Rob said, its probably a permissions issue
on the /dev/raw1394 if you are running as another user.

$ apt-cache search dvgrab
dvgrab - grab digital video data via IEEE1394 and USB linkssearch

Cheers, Tim

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