Re: Some questions

[James h. <har...@se...>]

>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:16:20 +0200
> From: Jose Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto <"jmbuena"@isys.dia.fi.upm.es>
> Subject: Some questions
> To: lin...@li...
> Organization: UPM
>
> Hi !
>
> I hope not to be off topic.
>
> I'd like to use a IEEE1394 camera to do real time computer vision. So I
> have
> to choose a PCI board and a cammera:
>
> - Can somebody tell me some board functional with Linux
>    nowadays ? I'll be easier to look for boards and not for a concrete
> chip. I supouse
>   that the only to worry about to work under Linux is the PC board.
>
>  - Is the 400 Mbits/s a real mesure ? What is the real frame rate that I
> can
>    achive ?
>
> - I have the kernel 2.2.14 with RedHat 6.1 in a SMP box. Some good/bad
> experience ?
>
>  - Where can I get more information about IEEE1394.
>
> Thanks a lot for your time.
>
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> Jose Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto
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Greetings Jose,

This is my first post to this list. I have been quietly monitoring it for a
week or so, I don't think this is off topic...

I have a sony DCR-TRV110E DV camcorder. It is the lowest model of the DV
capable camcorders that Sony produces. It has only a 350 line CCD but will
record full frame DV (Pal 720x576) over Firewire.

I have used it to capture video under Windows 98 with Ulead VideoStudio
4SE. It successfully captured/edited and played back to the camera.
This software was bundled with the card which is packaged as a "Cherri1394
Firewire Host Adapter".
The manual appears generic and is titled "CI-6500F4"

I am running Linux 2.2.14 and have built the IEEE1394 modules from the
project's website.
The card is found no problem.
The camera is unknown to gscanbus so it drops out with an error message. I
haven't had much time to get into this stuff, despite how cool it is,
because I am studying. However I believe that this is just a matter of
configuring gscan bus to recognise the ID of the camera because without the
camera there gscanbus opens the window and indicates that there are no
devices.

I don't know of any software that captures DV under Linux and would be very
interested in finding some. Help here anyone?
I'd be interested in any open source DV developments however I believe that
the patents may be a problem here???

When I get back my free time (July) I want to delve more deeply into the
IEEE1394 project an see if I can be helpful.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

James