Kino supports (at least) two different jogshuttle input devices. The
most commonly used by the kino developers is the "Contour ShuttlePro",
but the "Sony PCDA-J1/A USB Jog Shuttle" controller has also been
known to work at some point. Both are USB units.

As of kino version 0.6.2, the default method of supporting jogshuttles
have been through the Linux kernel HID driver. Before that, a custom
driver distributed with kino was used. It is suspected that this
breaks support for the Sony controller - at the end of this document
information about the custom driver is included.

Benefits of using the HID driver includes easy loading with hotplug (most
distributions will load the necessary driver when you plug in the controller
- you may have to "modprobe evdev" in some cases). Also, any controller
supported by the Linux HID driver should work with kino. (Preference
mapping untested for other controllers than the Contour Shuttle Pro).

If you use Kino succesfully with a device other than the Contour
Shuttle Pro, please let the kino developers know what device and what
your experience was by mailing the Kino developer list on 
Kino-dev@lists.sourceforge.net

Information about the custom driver

Tomoaki Hayasaka <hayasakas@postman.riken.go.jp> has added support for the
Sony PCDA-J1/A USB Jog Shuttle controller.
Go to his page at http://hellfire.riken.go.jp/~hayasaka/sonyjog/ for
more information.
You need to compile the supplied sonyjog.c yourself as
a kernel module and load it. Use Makefile.jog and read the instructions
at the top.
Following Tomoaki's lead, Dan Dennedy purchased the popular ShuttlePro
and made a variation of the sonyjog driver called shuttlepro.
Currently, the ShuttlePro jog wheel, shuttle ring work, and the center
button immediately above the jog wheel starts playback at 1X speed.

You will need to edit the src/jogshuttle.h file - simply remove the line
#define USE_HID_JOGSHUTTLE
this will let kino try to use the custom driver (you still need to
load it manually, etc).