Here's what I have used. All of this pretty much worked out of the boxes (all of them ;-): - SuSE 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18) This distribution has a lot of the video stuff bundled - A generic OHCI FireWire PCI card - A Sony PC1 DV camcorder - A Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge. This is a $300USD firewire <-> composite/S video (and audio) converter box. Works real well. - I hooked up the firewire devices to the PCI card (one at a time) and captured video with dvgrab. I used mjpegtools to convert the video to a VCD compliant MPEG file. I used a regular Hi8 camcorder to feed video to the DV Bridge. The only trick was that I had to insmod ieee1394.o, ohci1394.0 and raw1394.o to get dvgrab to be happy. I can't keep track of whether any of the stuff I use is considered part of v4l. Dvgrab produces gobs of data (3600000 bytes/sec). You need a fast machine to keep up with this. In my case I work with 5 minute video snippets. That's approx 1 gig from dvgrab. I immediately squeeze that down to 50 meg before burning a VCD. That's a 20X reduction. I tried a few analog capture cards but they didn't work that well so I picked this rather roundabout way of doing things. Soren -----Original Message----- From: video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel James Messing Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:12 PM To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: good quality webcam for linux? what I'm really looking for is a way to use a camera that I already have, which has svideo and component outputs, as a v4l source on a laptop. It seems like firewire would be the best way to get the video in, but I haven't discovered any solutions that sound like they would work yet. On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > Do you know of any firewire+dvcam setups offhand that are v4l > > compliant? Better yet, do you know of a way to get s-video or rca > > connections working in place of the dvcam, going in through the firewire > > port, and still being v4l compliant? > > Its not clear it makes sense for dvcam to be v4l compliant to be honest. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > _______________________________________________ Video4linux-list mailing list Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
