How to give me perms to use the firewire port?

[Ric Moore]

On 06/24/2013 04:52 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 24 June 2013 04:12:13 Ric Moore did opine:
>
>> On 06/23/2013 10:12 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 21:45 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> So, while I have a root session going, what do I have to do to make
>>>> the user 1000, me, be able to use the firewire port?
>>>
>>> Kino reports the device it is trying to open. The quick and dirty
>>> answer is to change the group ownership on that device file
>>> (/dev/whatever) to your own group. The module/device has "1394" in
>>> the name, I think.
>>>
>>> The nicer, tidier, more extensible, and arguably *right* way to do it
>>> would be to set up a firewire users group, put yourself in it, and
>>> give the device that group ownership. You will then need to set that
>>> group ownership on each boot, of course. There is a mechanism for
>>> that which I can't remember off the top of my head, but it's used to
>>> do things like provide access to serial ports to the dialout users
>>> group.
>>
>> Regarding Kino, since it's EOL, when you start it use "padsp kino" in
>> your command line at run time so that you will get sound via pulse.
>> Otherwise, no sound. :) Ric
>
> I know kino is EOL, but when I ran kdenlive, its replacement, after I had
> gotten kino to run as me so I knew there weren't any perms problems, it was
> not A: capable of opening the captured from the camera "dv" file from kino.
> And B: It has not grown the knobs needed to run my camera.  So its
> incapable of pulling a fresh copy of the a/v stream from my camera.
>
> Why kino development was stopped I am not privy to, but kdenlive as its
> replacement, will, to replace kino here, have to grow far better controls.
> There is no intuitiveness to how to run it, its something designed by a
> committee, no two members of which spoke a common language.

Oh, I'm with you on that Gene. I use Kino quite a bit. None of the 
others so far seem to be as intuitive to use. I wish it had been kept 
alive. mp4 support would have been great! Ric



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