[Wolves] firewire help

[Steve]

24/06/2003 21:07:47, Aquarius <aquarius-lists@kryogenix.org> wrote:

>Can't help you there, dude. I thought that it was a Mac thing?


no no no mr aq! Theres 3 areas i want to investigate:

1>Grabbing video with dvgrab via firewire, and looking at Kino, the simple looking video editing 
tool:

http://kino.schirmacher.de/

2>Using mencoder to see how many different formats the video can be converted to:

http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/04/06/mplayer.html

3>Using Cinelerra to do some complicated multitrack editing:

http://www.robfisher.net/video/cinelerra1.html

afaik firewire support is built into most later kernels, all that needs to be done is to use 
compatible card and do a bit of modprobing and you're away!!!:

http://www.robfisher.net/video/index.html

sounds easy dunnit?  ;-)

ste