[geeks] Displaying DV video from FireWire

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:17:48AM -0500, Francois Dion wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:20:12 -0500, Atom <rescue at port11.net> wrote:
> > An linux app would be cool. I could just have a dedicated machine
> > running to display the video and timecode would be cool too.
> > It looks like for this movie I will be renting a sony monitor that can
> > handle 16:9.
> > 
> > I will look into the specs later on tonight. Maybe it is fairly easy to
> > hack something up to work.
> 
> How about Jahshaka? I've not tried on the fly from DV, but I dont see
> why it wouldn't work. I think you'd have to use one of the anamorphic
> modes. You can write your own realtime plugins. You could even write
> your own P&S based script.

I haven't seen anything to suggest that Jahshaka knows how to take any
input on the fly like that.

And the last time I tried it it was a) harder to use than writing
scripts for a CLI compositor is, and b) unstable as all get out.

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