Linux for video professionals
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat May 6 15:51:52 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 01:35, Michael A. Peters 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
Yes you might find one kernel that works but you'd have to
test everything again after updates. A mac mini sounds about
like what you want, but if need power/display on the go you'd
be better off with an ibook - or the 12 inch powerbook which
would come in at about that $1500 price point.
The ipod idea does seem intriguing though, since it has
it's own power and is tiny.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list