Hey Andrew!

Dec 03 03:48 05, Andrew Ball wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 AB> I bought a MiniDV camera and my hope is to be able to fetch video 
 AB> from that over a FireWire cable,

Ah!  Yes that should work.

 MK>> Personally I am looking at this for network streaming
   >> as opposed to burning DVDs...

 AB> There are certainly some applications where streaming is appropriate. 
 AB>  Sadly I see it used a lot where I would prefer to just download an 
 AB> MPEG-2 or MP3 file.

As long as they are paying the bill then I don't have an issue with it. 
Personally I don't archive much here so a stream makes more sense, but not
over the internet since that would cost more then it is worth to me.  What
is nice is being able to format the stream in real time so that the more
standard crippled apps can deal with it.  The bonus is that reduces the
bandwidth in half without losing too much but if I were only concerned
about myself then I would archive the higher resolution signal and tweak my
apps to be able to deal with it.  

 AB> Streaming is based on the assumption that you have the band
 AB> -width required at the same time and place that you want to
 AB> view or listen to the content.

Right.  You got the bottomline except missed the economics issues.

 AB> In my case that's rarely true:  In 
 AB> the car I have time to listen to content, but not the bandwidth to 
 AB> stream it.

Right, unless whatever you have in your auto can handle a DVD and then it
could have the needed bandwidth.  However I would stick with audio if I
were the driver of that car.  There are enough distractions already when
driving.

 AB> In other places, I have plenty of bandwidth to stream 
 AB> content, but no time to stop and listen to it.  MPEG, MP3 and 
 AB> QuickTime files let me decouple the action of downloading content 
 AB> from the act of viewing or listening to it.

In my particular situation the audio and visual can be streamed
independantly if desired.  At the moment I have the audio maxed out but
could alter that stream so that it is within the realm of most, if not all,
digital audio apps.  That would effectively reduce the current bandwidth
substantially as well as put it within the grasp of machines with slower
cpu's.

Life is good,
Maurice

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