Hello i have a "sony handycam DCR-TRV255E" i have just got a firewire cable and hoping to get some video editing done firstly i installed kino as i heard it was good but i was having no luck so i heard about a programme called "coriander"so i open a terminal and type "coriander" i get the following error message.
"Warning:could not get handle to your ieee 1394 card.
please check that the card is present.
The ieee 1394 modules(ieee1394,ohci1394,raw1394,and video1394) are loaded.
check you have read and write permissions on the /dev/raw1394 and /dev/video 1394 devices,"
I am running Debian 3.1 on an "intel celeron"The firewire connection on the computer is built in to the front panel.
This is the output of "lsmod"
master1@aries:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
raw1394 28652 0
ieee1394 100408 1 raw1394
videodev 9856 0
nfsd 181024 9
exportfs 6144 1 nfsd
lockd 56520 2 nfsd
sunrpc 137060 12 nfsd,lockd
ipv6 229892 16
af_packet 20872 2
floppy 54992 0
parport_pc 33348 0
parport 37320 1 parport_pc
pcspkr 3816 0
snd_intel8x0 33068 0
snd_ac97_codec 59268 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 48168 0
snd_mixer_oss 16640 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 85384 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 23300 15 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4736 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 7296 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 23204 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 7944 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 50660 23 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi, snd_seq_device
soundcore 9824 1 snd
shpchp 87148 0
pciehp 83948 0
pci_hotplug 30640 2 shpchp,pciehp
sis_agp 8068 1
agpgart 31784 1 sis_agp
ehci_hcd 27908 0
usbnet 25352 0
ohci_hcd 19460 0
usbcore 104164 5 ehci_hcd,usbnet,ohci_hcd
b44 19972 0
mii 4864 2 usbnet,b44
tulip 42528 0
tsdev 7168 0
mousedev 9996 2
evdev 9088 0
capability 4872 0
commoncap 7168 1 capability
psmouse 17800 0
ide_cd 38176 0
cdrom 35740 1 ide_cd
rtc 12088 0
ext3 109544 2
jbd 54552 1 ext3
ide_generic 1664 0
sis5513 15240 1
ide_disk 16768 4
ide_core 125028 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,sis5513,ide_disk
sd_mod 20480 0
ata_piix 7812 0
libata 36228 1 ata_piix
scsi_mod 115148 2 sd_mod,libata
unix 26036 290
font 8576 0
vesafb 6688 0
cfbcopyarea 3840 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3200 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3712 1 vesafb
master1@aries:
If ant one can help me on this it would be great
Thanks nige

Can some one tell me why i should use firewire and not usb is there any reason for it?

master,
The error message was clear (Kino has one too in its Preferences window). It said to make sure the raw1394 module is loaded, which you have done. But it also says to make sure you have read and write permission to /dev/raw1394, which you did not show and is likely your problem:

$ ls -l /dev/raw1394

Does a particular group have read/write permission to that device? If so, add yourself to that group: e.g.,

$ sudo adduser `whoami` disk

You can not capture the video from your camera via the USB connector. The USB connector only provides access to the still photos from the digital photo camera function of your device.

Also, Coriander will not work with your device. Coriander works with a different class of FireWire video camera. You have a DV camera, and you will want to use Kino.

im a bit behind at the mo so could not reply to your thread,so iv got kino installed and iv sacked Coriander.when i start kino i thought just click on capture and i would be up and running but you guessed it im not so what do you think,any ideas?