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Pretty cool piece by Nora Young and the rest of the CBC Spark team about some of the work we have been doing over at the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre.

Check out the podcast here:
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/06/episode-82-june-17-20-2009/

and the video clip Nora mentioned here:

First, you need to make sure you have kino installed:

$ sudo apt-get install kino

then, connect your camera with the firewire cable and make sure the iee1394 module is loaded. Doing:

$ lsmod | grep ieee1394

should give you:

ieee1394              108288  4 dv1394,raw1394,sbp2,ohci1394

Now make sure the device /dev/raw1394 has been created. Doing:

$ ls -all /dev/raw1394

should give you something like:

crw-rw---- 1 root disk 171, 0 2009-06-10 09:56 /dev/raw1394

Also, make sure /dev/raw1394 belongs to either the disk or video groups. You will notice in the output above that my /dev/raw1394 belongs to the disk group, so it’s ok, but if this is not the case for you, then you can fix it by doing:

$ sudo chown root.disk /dev/raw1394

Finally, add yourself to the disk or video groups (whichever group you added the device to):

$sudo useradd -G [group-name] [user-name]

Now Kino should be able to recognize the camera and you should be able to transfer your videos to your computer!