[NBLUG/talk] Video-firewire
Dustin Mollo
dustin at sonic.net
Thu Jan 8 12:08:00 PST 2004
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:02:14PM -0800, Cal Herrmann wrote:
> "mount: you must specify the filesystem type" Is this the problem? What
> would be the filesystem type for the camera?
> What don't I understand now?
unless the camera is a digital photo camera, it won't be mountable. you
need to use a tool that knows how to control the camera over firewire
(dvgrab, kino etc) and can stream the video off the camera.
http://linux1394.org/ is a good place to start for all things linux and
ieee-1394 related. in their faq, you might find this helpfull:
http://linux1394.org/faq.html#DCvsDV
-dustin
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