[ILUG] Firewire Camcorder & Hardware drivers

[Ewan Oughton]

Jeebus, this dude seems to have the opposite of the Looney Field Effect :)


Regards


Ewan





On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Chris Higgins wrote:

>
> I bought a camcorder a few years ago, and it had a firewire
> port on it... I upgraded the laptop earlier this year and it also
> had a firewire port on it.
>
> Two days ago I bought a firewire cable.
>
> Tonite I plugged my camcorder into my laptop.
>
> sudo apt-get install kino
>
> sudo kino
>
> pressed play, and the camcorder jumped into life, and on screen came
> the footage from the tape, and from the speakers lept the sound.
>
> Stunned !
>
> When I bought the firewire cable I also picked up an extra stack of
> blank CD-R, and they happened to come with a free mini digital
> camera ( USB ) that hangs on your key ring.
>
> apt-get install gphoto2
>
> sudo gphoto2 --auto-detect
>
> and presto chango it discovered the little camera and I was able
> to copy the files off
>
> I'm stunned.. it's been a while since I've put anything vaguely
> weird near linux, but I don't think that there is any way that
> windows would have made that any easier...
>
> No reboots,  no messing.. it just worked.
>
> I'm so used to seeing people suffer with hardware and drivers for
> ages before the get them working that I think we may convince ourselves
> that non-pc hardware and linux will be hard work, and I was expecting
> ages of twiddling and fiddling before either of these would get anywhere.
> I didn't even expect the little cheapo digital camera to work at all.
>
> Now if I could just find a way to get local parents to keep their kids in
> and away from the fireworks, I could actually go get some sleep :-(
> Past midnight here, and we could be in iraq - some of the things going
> off are so loud that they are setting off house alarms.
>
> Just thought I'd share the experience.
>
>

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