Comment 64 for bug 6290

Good to hear from you and thanks for the explaination....

As for me it stopped working for a day and it stated working beautifully
again...
well all is settled and now i can edit my videos...

Thank you and cheers!

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Stefan Richter <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Re comment 61:
> > Now i do not know what are the implications of unblocking the
> firewire-ohci, but
> > that was the solution that made my kino/kdenlive worked beautifully....
>
> The implication is that you switched from
> ohci1394 + ieee1394 + raw1394 ( /dev/raw1394 ) --- libraw1394 +
> libiec61883 + kino
> to
> firewire-ohci + firewire-core ( /dev/fw* ) --- libraw1394 + libiec61883
> + kino
> i.e. to different newer FireWire kernel drivers and a different character
> device file interface. This is basically what the blueprint "Enable new
> Firewire stack in default kernel config" is about. (See box at the right
> side of this page.)
>
> The new kernel drivers are simpler, better performing, more compliant to
> specifications, and more secure than the older drivers. In contrast to
> Ubuntu's raw1394 access policy, firewire-core's device files are created
> with more liberal access permissions for devices which need to be (and
> are safe to be) accessed by userspace programs such as kino.
>
> --
> DV capture over Firewire is broken (no rights for /dev/raw1394)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/6290
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> Status in “kino” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Duncan Lithgow reopened this bug.
>
> In Ubuntu 8.10 importing dv over firewire does not "just work" with Kino
> 1.3.0
>
> I'm back at the familiar message: "WARNING: raw1394 kernel module not
> loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw1394
>
> My first guess is that this is because someone forgot to set the flag
> needed during the build to enable support for /dev/dv1394/0 (in the video
> group) which is not enabled by default... by default there is only access to
> /dev/raw1394 (in the disc group) which we've agreed is not the best solution
> for most users.
>
> Running Kino as root does not (strangely) get around this problem. I get
> the same error messages plus one about no camera being detected. It just
> switches between them.
>
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