Re: sony and pci and pcmcia 1394 cards?
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From: Andreas M. <and...@iv...> - 2000-12-28 22:39:24
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 09:35:57AM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > i've heard of broadcast 2000. how's this? worse comes to worse, we'll I have not really used this yet. But seems to somehow do the job. There is also a propreritary product called MainActor which should support 1394 soon (or does it already? The website is somehow unclear). The demo version I tried a year ago looked very promising (and of course the Amiga version is a classic. ;-))) And there is more to come. Have you tried Arne Schirmacher's link page? http://www.schirmacher.de/cgi-bin/dclinks.cgi?action=view_category&category=Linux+Software > do what we need on my wife's windows box, but i'd really rather do it > with linux (or one of the bsds, actually). You could also use Linux for grabbing DV streams from your camcorder and use windows for doing the editing. Btw.: You can't use Linux for putting your video back on DV tape via 1394 yet. So far you can only use it for the import of video data. But this should also change really soon now. > excellent. i didn't have any specific one in mind yet. the most > important aspect is "plays well with linux" so i was hoping to find one > or a few highly recommended ones and then i'd chose from there. You should find some positives in the mailing list archives. I use a Unibrain card, but that is probably not what you want because it is expensive, and as said before any other OHCI card should also do the job. > since you say most are ohci compliant, is there maybe a black list of > cards that i should avoid? or do most of the ohci compliant cards > usually say on the box? I don't know what most boxes look like. The easiest thing for you would be to look at thoses boxes and than ask on this list if anybody is using one of these cards. However if a box states OHCI, the chances are quite good that the card works. The only OHCI controllers that I am aware of that make trouble are the ones that are built into certains MACs and into certain Sony VAIO notebooks. The safest thing would probably be a card which uses the Texas Instruments OHCI chipset. If they print this on the box you can probably buy it. bye... Andreas Micklei -- Andreas Micklei IVISTAR Kommunikationssysteme AG Ehrenbergstr. 19 / 10245 Berlin http://www.ivistar.de |