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

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 28 May 2002 11:24:54 +0000
Bob Raymond <guarneri at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> What he had before was a JVC  MiniDV machine with an IEEE1394 interface. 
>  When he was still using Windows, he could use the software provided
> with the camera to copy from the camera to the computer, and then he 
> could e-mail clips out.   Is there a USB or PC-Card video capture card
> that works in Linux?  I don't think he'll have much luck connecting a 
> PCI card like that to his old 486 with Win 3.11, so this has to be on 
> the laptop.

First get gscanbus to report proper hardware identification. Then,
the simplest app is 'dvgrab'.

There is a step-by-step (not the one known in these parts) in the
sourceforge site I listed
earlier.(http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/start_req.html) It guides you
through setting it up and locating software to get you started. If you have
a recent kernel (2.4 series), the patches they talk about are probably not
needed.


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