I am not sure if this has progressed any more and if any decision has been drawn up, the thread has been a little quiet.
I just wanted to express that from a user perspective I would be surprised if I installed a modern Linux distribution and I could no longer use a DV connection to edit my videos. I have been using etch to do this for a while now and it works fine. In fact I was using etch as I was having problems configuring the correct modules to use for 1394 on another distribution. I am all for change and development. but I have always looked to Debian to supply a sane, working and stable system. Currently I have that with etch and hope to have that for lenny.
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