Re: sony and pci and pcmcia 1394 cards?

[Pete T. <pe...@to...>]

Moin Andreas!

Andreas Micklei schrieb am Donnerstag, den 28. Dezember 2000:

> On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:18:48PM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote:
[snip]
> One problem you will encounter is, that there are not much useful applica=
tions
> for using a DV camcorder with Linux yet. So you should check if these
> applications suit your needs before buying a camcorder. Preferably you co=
uld
> contribute code. :-)

i've heard of broadcast 2000.  how's this?  worse comes to worse, we'll
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).

> > i see from the list and other docs that there is some support for pci
> > ieee 1394 cards, but i'm looking for a list of "known good" cards.
> > listing the working chipsets is nice, but afaik, vendors don't usually
> > list what chips they use.  is there any known list like this?
>=20
> Somebody is working on that IMHO. What card do you intend to buy? Most ca=
rds
> are OHCI compliant these days and should generally work anyway.

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.

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?

thanks,
pete