This event should be recorded in the messages file too. Next thing to do is installation of libraw1394. That is another interface layer in the 1394 architecture. Download, unpack, compile, install. You may want to set the permissions to 666, so that you do not need to access it as root.
Last step is compilation of the dvgrab program.
If you got here successfully, this will be trivial. Play this with Kino or move it to a Windows PC and try it with one of the Windows Player programs. Note If you are using an IDE disk, you should probably turn on the DMA feature of the IDE disk drive.