Query firewire device name in gstreamer

[David Narvaez]

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Edhoari Setiyoso <edhoari.s at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm building an app that needs to list all capture device in the system. I
> already able to query device name for audio and v4l device. But I'm still
> unable to get the name for connected firewire device (a camcorder).
>
> Here is part of the properties I can get
> found device : "36105213144400385"
> device-name : "Default"
> name : "dv1394src1"
> guid : "0"
>
> Kino is able to tell the device name (Panasonic NV 390) and capture from
> it. That should tell everything works just fine. Now I need to enumerate the
> device using gstreamer. Could anyone share their experience on this?

Try asking udev for the name of that device.

David E. Narvaez