I have found a way to make the device work fine with Kino, I see it without any special sudo command. Since I use it on a laptop, I don't really care about security. Still, I can't get Flash Media Encoder to see the device through Wine, however I have tried to fiddle with the Wine configuration (Devices): - the mapping thing (I use a translated version of Wine so I'm not sure which is the original english term); I have tried to add the ieee1394 device there (bloody stupid, right?), just for fun. Like "e:" and "ieee1394" . But now (Kino works.. ) it does not want to go away. I delete it, hit "detect..." and it comes back. ...hope this is harmless