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I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and have a Pinnacle video capture card installed. I am attempting to download a movie from my DV camera. The card is seen by the system:

> lspci
  02:01.0 Multimedia controller: Pinnacle Systems Inc. AV/DV Studio Capture Card
  02:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Pinnacle Systems Inc. Device 0015

However, when I use kino or dvgrab my camera is not found. This is specific to Ubuntu as I have a dual boot with Windows and things work under Windows. What diagnostics can I run?

karel
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You need to run dvgrab as root, as the firewire devices are not accessible for unprivileged users. This causes a lot of confusion as the device seems to be connected and working fine, except the user can't access the device node.

Facundo
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Use plugreport to see a list of connected 1394 devices in linux.

I use it with plugctl to set channels to record more than one stream at a time with DVgrab. Im not sure what to do if it's not listed in the output of plugreport, but if it is, you should be able to tell DVgrab exactly what channel to look for your DV camera on. Also I would say that for sure until you see it in plugreport's output, it's not going to with with DVgrab.

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