Are there actually linux drivers for the Dazzle Hollywood DV bridge? I think I might have been a little unclear before, I don't need to actually capture the video, I just need the video stream being sent to video0 so that another program, like xawtv for example, can access it... On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Soren Tirfing wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list >
