How do I get firewire to work on FC4?

[supertech]

Hi Everyone!


I am a Linux newbie and managed to install and run FC4 quite comfortably. One problem though I can't seem to get my Firewire to work.....I want to capture video from a Sony TRV38 handycam. However it seems as though there is no support for the Firewire module as yet. The hardware browser picks up the Firewire port quite easily, however it does not detect anything plugged into it. Can anyone help me please.

[nlkrio]

you have to install libdv.i386,use yum to install it.
open a terminal as root and type:yum install libdv.i386
below are infos about libdv.i386 good luck!
libdv.i386 0.103-4 installed
Matched from:
The Quasar DV codec (libdv) is a software codec for DV video, the
encoding format used by most digital camcorders, typically those that
support the IEEE 1394 (a.k.a. FireWire or i.Link) interface. libdv was
developed according to the official standards for DV video: IEC 61834
and SMPTE 314M.

[supertech]

Hi Thanks very much for the help. However the yum update tells me "nothing to do" at the end of the process. Does this mean that it is installed already?

[nlkrio]

open terminal and type:rpm -q libdv.i386
and you will see if it is installed

[mwette]

Has this been resolved? I have firewire on my laptop and just installed firewire card on my
server. Both have libdv, but I don't see any /dev/ieee1394 directory gets created.
I do have this:
[root@localhost rules.d]# grep 1394 50-udev.rules
# IEEE1394 (firewire) devices (must be before raw devices below)
KERNEL=="raw1394", NAME="%k"
KERNEL=="dv1394*", NAME="dv1394/%n"
KERNEL=="video1394*", NAME="video1394/%n"

Also:
[root@localhost rules.d]# rpm -qa | grep 1394
libraw1394-devel-1.2.0-1.fc4
libraw1394-1.2.0-1.fc4
libavc1394-devel-0.4.1-8
libavc1394-0.4.1-8

And I have libdv installed. What's up?