Consumer-grade digital video cameras, firewire, Linux, anybody?

[Net Llama!]

I don't know that what he wants exists.  He basically wants a fully 
featured video camera, that has a IEEE1394 interface?

I know that Axis Communications makes a cat5 camera with a built in 
webserver, but that's about as close as it gets.

If he's truly looking to do fancy video recording, he should purchase a 
quality camera, and a video capture/TV card.

Bob Raymond wrote:
> That friend of mine with the laptop battery troubles has a nice, fast
> SuSE 8.0 with XFS.  I haven't tested battery yet, but the thing isn't
> swapping to the HD all the time, even though I went overboard and gave
> him 600 mb of swap.  Now, he wants to replace his now dead digital video
> camera with something in the $300-$500 range, that works in Linux, and
> is firewire, and is of good quality.  I'm giving up Googling.  I spent
> about two hours on there and got plenty of links about webcams, but he
> doesn't want a webcam.  Any suggestions on what to get?

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