Re: [Debconf-video] video volunteers wanted, too (was Re: FOSDEM: schedule, booth, and devroom volunteers)

[Luca Capello <luca@pca.it>]

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