What is a Digital Camera and how does it differ from a DV camcorder or professional DV camera?
In general, there are two classes of cameras: DV and Digital Cameras. In the 1394 world, a Digital Camera is a camera that sends uncompressed video and complies with the 1394 Trade Association’s Digital Camera specification. It is not a digital photo camera. Note, however, there is at least one digital photo camera with a 1394 port, the professional Nikon D1. However, it does not send DV nor Digital Camera uncompressed video. Please see our compatibility list for some examples between these two classes of camera. If you want to capture the video from your Digital Camera to disk, then you will need to write a program to do this yourself using libdc1394 and some video file format libraries. A video4linux driver is planned, and you will then be able to use gstreamer or XawTv to capture video to the disk. Coriander now captures still images to disk, ftp, or a Real streaming server.
