[desktop-discuss] IEEE1394 Video - Was Multimedia Improvements in OpenSolaris

[Doug Scott]

On Monday 27 August 2007 18:31, David Bustos wrote:

 > Speaking of community involvement in multimedia on Solaris, is
 > anyone interested in or knowledgeable about importing and perhaps
 > editing video from digital camcorders via firewire? Code for it
 > exists in the kernel, but it's broken on x86. And I developed some
 > shim code to make some Linux applications able to use the Solaris
 > interface. If there's interest, we can try moving that forward
 > faster.

After having a closer look through the various Linux firewire libraries, 
I am coming to the conclusion that it would be easier to write a driver 
compatible with the Linux raw1394 driver rather than hacking the various 
libraries, apps and fixing the Solaris av1394 driver. Any thoughts?

Doug