Re: how experimental is 1394 these days?
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
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