Camera not recognized! Green image only.

Here's a mystery for ya... I've got a brand new Powerbook G4, 1.67GHz, 2GB of RAM with a 120G harddrive. A few of the applications I can hook up my DV camera to via firewire freeze up, freak out or just plain don't work. On my older Powerbook (1GHz, 1G RAM) - no issues.
The camera is a Sony TRV-11
The firewire cable works.
The firewire port works.
I am running Quicktime 7.03
Applications such as iMovie HD, iStopMotion and FrameThief, all of which work on the older Powerbook do not work.
I can, however, successfully capture and record back to the camera from Adobe Premiere.
I have tried deleting the Quicktime Receipts from the Library folder. I have tried downgrading to Quicktime 7.01. I have tried the magical GarageBand fix where you open it up, play a few notes and start up iMovie again. Nuthin. All I see in iMovie is a green screen. Neither iStopMotion or FrameThief recognize the camera... although, interestingly enough, the first time I ran FrameThief after downloading it, it recognized my camera. Restarting the machine with the camera on did not work.
I'm at a loss. Help!

everything is identical.
Rats.
OK, let's bring in the arsenal of fixes from here:
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wheel storage users printadmin
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ATTR{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTR{idProduct}=="31e0", SYMLINK+="libmtp-%k", ENV{ID_MTP_DEVICE}="1", ENV{ID_MEDIA_PLAYER}="1"
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Listening to add/remove events:
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udevadm monitor
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UDEV [5077.681178] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb2/2-8 (usb)
UDEV [5077.693035] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb2/2-8/2-8:1.0 (usb)
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With Digikam i could import Fotos, but i would do so with gwenview. I've tried to check it out with gwenview_importer:
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Last edited by quiqueck (2014-02-26 20:10:25)

I have solved this by making an extra udev-rule for my camera. See my adventure on forum.kde.org for details

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Yes and No, respectively.
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