From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 31 15:10:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atdot.dotat.org (atdot.dotat.org [150.101.89.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19B037B40C for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from newton@localhost) by atdot.dotat.org (8.11.0/8.9.3) id f7VMJEZ13817; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 07:49:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from newton) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 07:49:14 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <200108312219.f7VMJEZ13817@atdot.dotat.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Digital Video cameras, memory sticks Cc: v@atdot.dotat.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, people. I'm about to buy a digital video camera. In doing so, I'm kinda trusting that IEEE-1394 support in free operating systems will eventually mature to the point where I can drive it under BSD -- I figure that's inevitable, even if it's going to take a while. In the meantime, though, I've been looking at some of the Sony Mini-DV models which come with Memory Stick slots and USB interfaces. And I have some questions about support for *those* under BSD right now, since we have increasingly good USB support already. The ability to drive the camera under FreeBSD isn't the overriding feature I'm using to select the product I buy, but it'll definitely be a tie-breaker when I'm looking at competing brands or models with similar features. So - Can I talk to a Sony Mini-DV camera via the USB interface from FreeBSD? If so, what capabilities does it deliver? (frame grabbing? MPEG download?) What hardware/software combinations are people using for doing I/O on Sony Memory Stick media? If I decide to buy something like this, I'll be driving it from a desktop system - No PCCARD interfaces, but plenty of USB sockets. And, one day, when the software support has managed to get there, Firewire as well. (FWIW: I've noted that Kino (http://freshmeat.net/projects/kino/) already appears to be able to talk to these cameras, perform basic editing, MPEG downloads, etc -- But on Linux, with their IEEE1394 support). Please reply directly to me; I'll summarize back to the mailing list if I get anything worthwhile. Thanks in advance, - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message