fc5 - kino-8.0 Q?

[Gene Heskett]

Gene Heskett wrote:

Yes, I know, its considered "poor form" to answer ones own posts, but no
one else has, and I have a wee bit more data, and a more specific
question, see the PS: at the bottom.  As I think it may be udev related, 
gregkh at suse.de added to Cc: line.

> Greetings all;
> 
> I got curious because I'm needing to get a wedding vcd made, installed 
> kino and as much of the support stuff as I could remember for importing 
> from a Sony TRM-460 digital hi-8 movie camera.  So far, so good, I'm 
> watching video out of the camera in real time on the kino capture screen
> 
> I'm still missing the control functionality that works over the firewire 
> cable, so I cannot start/stop/pause etc the camera. Kino, in its 
> preferences, cannot find the controlling device as none are shown in the 
> multiselector bar for that function.  This did work on my FC2 box 18 
> months ago with kino-7.5.
> 
> Does anyone recall the name of that utility?  ISTR it had some sort of 
> an ieee number in its filename, but I don't recognize it in the smart 
> display.

PS:  I believe this controling utility to be libavc1394, which is
installed.  Version libavc1394-0.5.1-2.2.

That leaves udev, as in its not automaticly creating the device, and
whose name I haven't the foggiest.

Is there a way to "force" the creation of the camera's control device by
udev?

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Cheers, Gene