[streaming] vlc camcorder (firewire) streaming on a laptop

[Sudhi]

Hi,

I am trying to stream video from Sony DCR-HC96 camcorder connected to
a lenovo T61 laptop through the 4-pin firewire interface. I followed
instructions given on
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Stream_from_a_DV_Camcorder
with no luck.

I checked that the modules video1394, dv1394, raw1394, ohci1394,
ieee1394 have all loaded. The devices /dev/raw1394, /dev/video1394/0
are also created. Moreover, I am able to see the video in kino. dmesg
also shows the camera status whenever it is connected/disconnected.

I tried with the same camcorder on a desktop with a 6-pin PCI firewire
interface and I was able to do VLC streaming by piping output from
dvgrab (for eg., dvgrab - | vlc - ...). However on the laptop, dvgrab
returns with "Error: no camera exists" error.

Could anyone please help me with this.

Thanks,

Sudhi.