Events FAD: Need another fw/mini-dv system?

[Chris Tyler]

On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 00:43 -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
> I'll be bringing my Thinkpad that has a FW interface if that's needed.
> 
> On 1/27/10, Clint Savage <herlo1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think there is value in bringing your miniDV camcorder.  If you want
> > to bring your lightweight laptop, that should suffice as well.  I'm
> > guessing your netbook has enough juice to provide what is needed to
> > encode video...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Clint
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Chris Tyler <ctyler at fedoraproject.org>
> > wrote:
> >> Is there any value in bringing a Firewire-equipped laptop + miniDV
> >> camcorder to the Events FAD? I would prefer to bring my (much lighter,
> >> with webcam and with a useful battery life) netbook, but could bring the
> >> FW/MiniDV system if it would be useful to have.
> >>
> >> -Chris

Ok, so if Jon's machine has fw on it, I'll bring the miniDV to connect
to that, plus the lighter netbook (no fw or cardbus, but it has its own
v4l2-compatible webcam to provide a video source for experimentation).

-Chris