On 8/24/07, John Lange <john.lange@open-it.ca> wrote:

Kevin, have you ever been able to capture video via firewire under
Linux?

I only gave it a quick try but was not able to do it. While there is
fireware support for Linux, my understanding is each video camera has
proprietary DV/Firewire drivers which of course don't exist for Linux.

Is that correct?

John

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 13:17 -0500, Kevin McGregor wrote:
> You should suggest to him that he should get a DV (digital video) type
> of video camera for future recording. Then he could bring in the
> content (via FireWire, usually) directly for editing. For the other
> cases, the Hauppage cards (e.g. PVR-150) have a good selection of
> inputs and software support.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Pfaiffer <high.res.mike@gmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, August 23, 2007 23:03
> Subject: [RndTbl] Video in
> To: roundtable@muug.mb.ca
>
> > This is for a friend who isn't on the list yet. He's been to a
> > couple
> > of meetings and is thinking of joining the club in September.
> >
> > This guy tapes wedding videos as a hobby. He has family in the
> > Ukraine
> > (as do the people whose weddings he records). He wants to
> > convert some
> > of the video tapes to a computer format so he can edit them
> > (throw in
> > titles and fancy transitions etc.). Maybe later convert them to
> > DVD. He
> > would like some recommendations about hardware and software. In
> > addition
> > to video in, he is thinking about setting up his machine as a
> > part time
> > PVR. Again, hardware and software recommendations are what he wants.
> >
> > He has another request. He wants to know what software he can
> > use to
> > convert audio from a cassette tape to MP3 format. His father
> > accumulated
> > quite a collection of Ukrainian music when he was alive. So now
> > he wants
> > to convert his fathers collection over so he can listen to it on
> > his
> > computer and portable system.
> >
> > He already has some hardware. He's running a dual core 64 bit
> > system
> > with loads of RAM and hard drive space. He is dualbooting with
> > Ubuntu
> > (FF) and XP.
> >
> > Later
> > Mike
> >
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