Net Llama! wrote: > I don't know that what he wants exists. He basically wants a fully > featured video camera, that has a IEEE1394 interface? > > I know that Axis Communications makes a cat5 camera with a built in > webserver, but that's about as close as it gets. > > If he's truly looking to do fancy video recording, he should purchase > a quality camera, and a video capture/TV card.
What he had before was a JVC MiniDV machine with an IEEE1394 interface. When he was still using Windows, he could use the software provided with the camera to copy from the camera to the computer, and then he could e-mail clips out. Is there a USB or PC-Card video capture card that works in Linux? I don't think he'll have much luck connecting a PCI card like that to his old 486 with Win 3.11, so this has to be on the laptop. Quality camera would also be non-digital? Because I think he does want a digital camera. Thanks, Bob Raymond > > > Bob Raymond wrote: > >> That friend of mine with the laptop battery troubles has a nice, fast >> SuSE 8.0 with XFS. I haven't tested battery yet, but the thing isn't >> swapping to the HD all the time, even though I went overboard and gave >> him 600 mb of swap. Now, he wants to replace his now dead digital video >> camera with something in the $300-$500 range, that works in Linux, and >> is firewire, and is of good quality. I'm giving up Googling. I spent >> about two hours on there and got plenty of links about webcams, but he >> doesn't want a webcam. Any suggestions on what to get? > > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
