On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> Santa brought us a MiniDV camcorder for Christmas, and I'm interested in > using linux to do some basic digital video editing (home videos, soccer > games, stupid stuff like that) > > I know IEEE 1394 support is still experimental, but my question is, how > experimental? Is anyone using it (especially for digital video > capture/transfer) and, if so, how successful have you been? I don't mind a > few application crashes, and even the occasional system crash but I'd like to > avoid things along the lines of file corruption, kernel corruptions, etc. I was able to use 1394 sbp drivers to transfer all of the data from my iPod to my hard drive, on Linux 2.4.17/powerpc. That was a pleasant surprise. I haven't tried DV. -jwb
