I realize that.  I have no firewire equipment.  All my stuff is analog 
and I'm not in the market to buy a DV camera just for this.  I guess 
I'll have to settle for MS until then.

craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 09:38, Don Calfa wrote:
>  
>
>>I have a windows system that was used solely for video capture.  It was 
>>PCI based and gave me the capability to record to tape.  (That's not 
>>really important)  Being that I have to buy a new capture device, I 
>>would like it to work with Linux so I can wean off of Windows.
>>
>>So far, only firewire seems to work for Linux that I can see and I have 
>>no need for that.  All my stuff is analog that I'm converting.  I wish I 
>>could find a USB solution so I can move the device around and test it out.
>>
>>    
>>
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>firewire is very cheap to add to a computer and the reason that firewire
>is used and not USB is because UBS 1.1 was too slow and if you put USB
>1.1 devices on a bus with 2.0, you aren't gonna be happy.
>
>Firewire has become the standard video interface.
>
>Craig
>
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