Hi there! On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:36:17 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 21:35 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: >> I'll be at FOSDEM and glad to help the video team. [...] > Thanks very much for helping out. Please also come to the meeting on > #debconf-video on Monday 18/2 at 20:00 GMT (if I remember correctly).
Sorry, I'm already busy next Monday at that time: I'll leave my IRC session opened and read the backlog later. >> It also happens that I have a MiniDV camera, a SONY DCR-PC55E [2], >> but no tripod, sorry. The major drawback for this camera is that the >> Firewire connection is located on the docking station, which the >> camera is attached to on the side opposite from the LCD. In this >> configuration, changing a tape is a bit tricky and requires around >> 5min. > > Then this might be better as camera 2. Sure :-) >> Apart from that, the camera works smoothly on Debian and I already used >> it to record the Italian DebConf 2007 [3]. >> >> FWIW, I'll have my laptop (IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad X60 [4], but if we >> need something different than sid and space, please tell me ASAP and >> I'll free my second 60G SATA HD. > > DV grabbing is broken in sid because the Debian kernel has been built > with only the new "Juju" firewire drivers and libraw1394 has not yet > been updated to work with these. If you install the etch kernel it > will probably work, but please check this beforehand. I'm aware of this problem and this is the reason I still have an old 2.6.18 kernel (not the etch one, however): it was the same kernel I used for the Italian DebConf 2007 recordings ;-) Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca _______________________________________________ Debconf-video mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video
