Linux for video professionals
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Sat May 6 06:35:02 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 02:23 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> I post the following query from a professional television producers list I
> belong to - it speaks for itself:
>
> "why can't a mobile fire wire hard drive work as my storage unit for my video
> camera, you need to buy that expensive external hardrive backup @$1500 for
> 40/80 gigs. Isn't there someway of running a pre installed linux program on
> the mobile firewire and save my video automatically, I'm not looking for all
> the bells and whisles, maybe just independant folders every time I hit the
> record button.
> Any linux, software gurus, help out."
>
> Any takers? Ideas?
FireWire ports that worked for me in FC3 do not work in FC4/FC5
IMHO FireWire is too unstable in the kernel to even consider using it
for professional television production.
But :shrug: - maybe something out there using an earlier kernel works.
Maybe Linux on a 40GB FireWire iPod :D
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