[Loren M. Lang, 2004-10-18] > I am intresting in doing video capture over firewire on FreeBSD. I > understand that FreeBSD supports firewire controllers that conform to > the OHCI spec (basically, all of them), but it seems that it really is > only useful for SBP2 which is just hard drives. Is there any support > for video, yet or planned? Also, if firewire is like usb, then isn't it > possible to do video transfers without any kernel-level drivers needed?
See fwcontrol(8) I use it all the time to make DVDs out of my DV-tapes. Connect your DV-camera to the firewire port, start "fwcontrol -R video.dv", and press play on your camera. Your screen will start to fill up with numbers. When you are done, press stop and then ^c fwcontrol. You can also use fwcontrol to send a dv-stream back into your camera. You could use multimedia/transcode to convert the raw dv-stream into something more useful (and less space consuming). > Another related question is if FreeBSD has any libraries like Linux's > libdv and libavc. If not, then would it be good to try and port them or > provide a compatible api for supporting video? See multimedia/libdv in the ports collection. Cheers, Svein Halvor _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
