Firewire video capture

[cgrant]

Why does video capture not work "out of the box"? All I get using Kino is device raw1394 not loaded. I've tried runnung kino as user and root.

What is the workaround on FC6 please.

Thanks
Colin

[toracat]

Why does video capture not work "out of the box"? All I get using Kino is device raw1394 not loaded. I've tried runnung kino as user and root.

What is the workaround on FC6 please.

Thanks
Colin
In my case, luckily, kino worked out of box with FC6. But I have previously had the same problem with FC5 as yours. At that time, I could fix it by doing the following:

run lsmod and see what modules are loaded.
You may need to run,

modprobe raw1394
modprobe ohci1394

then make sure /dev/raw1394 exists. If not, create it by:
mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0

[cgrant]

Many thanks.

Earlier I tried mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 followed by sbin /modprobe/raw1394 (or sometuining lke that) and it worked but only until I rebooted. Even using the "sbin" command (ie withouut mknod first) after reboot did nothing.

On top of that half of kino is missing - no titler and no added effects from Kino-plugins. All a little poor on the face of it.

Colin :)

[toracat]

Is it correct that the mknod command together with the modprobe command got kino working and that rebooting demolished them? Then, you can add those commands in the /etc/rc.local file so that they are run each time the system boots. Try adding:

if [ ! -c /dev/raw1394 ] ; then mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 ; fi
/sbin/modprobe raw1394

[cgrant]

Many thanks I'll give it a whirl.

Incidentally as you use Kino, have you managed to get the titler included (and any other effects from Kino-plus).

Thanks
Colin

[toracat]

Sorry, I have no experience with kino-plus.

[cgrant]

It should all be part of the package. It certainly is with Ubuntu and Mepis, although they are not up to version 9.2 yet. The Kino website says that Titler is compiled as as integral part of Kino so it should be there really..

Thanks for the help :-)

Colin

[toracat]

Have you checked kino's discussion forum?

http://www.kinodv.org/dcforum/dcforum?az=show_topics&forum=101

You may have a better chance for finding the answer there.