IEEE 1394 Puns

I have been working with MiniDVD disc camcorders for a few years and I recently began using a tape camcorder (Canon ZR40). I loaded a new tape, got some footage, and then found that I had no way to transport it to my MacBook. So I bought this cord off of Amazon, which, in retrospect, looks extremely shady. Every Youtube tutorial I watch etc they're using like 3 converters to get the signal to their MacBook, while I have this USB/firewire combo cord that requires no converter except a USB to USB C one. I will admit that I don't know anything about cables.

I can't get any footage onto my Mac; I tried with Quicktime, iMovie, and Premiere. They simply do not detect the camcorder. It does not come up at all when I check System Information. 😔

HOWEVER, the camcorder knows that it's connected to something, because the "DV IN" message is coming up. This is giving me hope. Maybe there's something wrong that isn't cord-related? How stupid am I for buying this product? What can I do/buy to get this footage on my computer?

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Basically title says it all I'm trying to find a IEEE 1394(firewire) male connector that is PCB mount I've been searching all over it and have yet to find one that's male. it seems I can only find the receptacle or female types

I have a device that accepts video input through ieee 1394 4-pin. I understand there may be a way to drive an output, but Im concerned about latency in software conversion to the old firewire protocol. Is that a real problem? I have a performance desktop, but can this also be done with a cheap laptop?

Hi all!

I couldn't find anything in a search, so... I'm having trouble connecting my launch monitor to a Dell laptop.

The LM is firewire-based. When I plug it in, I get the "dedunk" sound, but the program I run says my LM isn't connected.

The laptop's running Windows 7 Pro, and I have the 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (legacy) driver running (For 32-bit, because it won't run in 64).

The LM is based on the Unibrain Fire-I driver/Point Fire Dragonfly (that's what it says in Device Manager, anyway).

Any tips, ideas, or stuff to try? I've done some steps from websites, to no avail. But maybe with a more conversation-like setup, I can work through it.

I keep getting dead carrier and the packets are never received, how can I get this working?

I tried google searches, the lenovo website, and intel chipset packages. Nothing seems to fix this error in the device manager.

Anyone have a good site for drivers problems or a catch all utility?

Zelda for the lazy

I'm currently struggling writing a simple c++ program in Windows to read and write to my laptop's firewire expresscard and I wondered if Reddit could please help.

People have told me it's easy, but I'm struggling to find any guides as to any APIs I can use and how to use them.

I've downloaded and installed the windows driver kit (someone pointed me in that direction), but their documentation really isn't helping much.

ANY help on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys

Throughout the years I’ve heard of many widely adopted tech-standards, only to occasionally hear some were made by Apple (or at least were pushed to the mainstream by them). I’m aware a lot of standards have originated from many different companies, but for now I am curious to know which standards have originated from within Apple?

Does someone know of a summary of this online? Otherwise, I will update the list below based on contributions made by you, and I will be grateful for any additions to the list! Full-disclosure: I’m just a nerd and I like lists.

Widely adopted technologies (standards):

• 1980: Affordable computer mouse segment (refined by Apple; inspired by Xerox; debatable)
• 1983: GUI-based computer segment (pushed by Apple; inspired by Xerox)
• 1984: Speech system integrated into an operating system (pushed by Apple)
• 1987: Unicode (co-initiated by Xerox and Apple)
• 1991: TrueType / .ttf (by Apple; replacing bitmap fonts)
• 1992: ARMv6 / 64-bit architecture (refined / pushed by Apple)
• 1994: The placing of the touchpad (refined / pushed by Apple via PowerBook 500 series)
• 1998: USB-A physical connector (pushed by Apple via iMac; replacing SCSI)
• 1999: WiFi (pushed by Apple via iBook)
• 1999: PDF (pushed by Apple via Quartz 2D)
• 2001: WebKit (fork by Apple)
• 2002: CUPS (refined by Apple; made by Micheal Sweet)
• 2005: Private browsing feature (pushed by Apple via Safari 2.0)
• 2005: RSS (pushed by Apple via Safari 2.0)
• 2005: Podcasts (pushed by Apple via iTunes 4.9, iTunes Music Store, Garageband and QuickTime Pro)
• 2005: MPEG-4 H.264 codec (pushed by Apple)
• 2005: LLVM (refined by Apple; made by Chris Lattner and Vik

I have a number of Hi-8 NTSC analog tapes that I'd like to digitize on my Linux box. I have a camcorder for these that outputs composite video. Also I have a few digital 8 tapes, camcorder, with a firewire interface and card.

Is there a decent solution that can capture the video from both? I understand you can chain the analog to the digital to receive through the card. I'm looking for decent capture software. Thanks!

I've got this iBook G4 which has a dead optical drive. (I asked about that before.) Assuming I can put it back together (sans DVD), I'd like to reinstall Mac OSX. While I had it apart I hooked the hard disk up to my Linux laptop and erased it. It is currently an empty ext4 partitioned drive. That may not have been the best way to go, but if the machine never came back together, I wanted to make sure there were no remaining traces of my friend's old bits on the disk.

I have an older MacBook Pro with a functioning DVD drive and newer Firewire. The iBook has the older Firewire connector. Should I be able to use a cable like this and Mac OSX install disk (what version?) then boot the iBook in target disk mode to reinstall?

Hey,

I am facing some difficulties in trying to use a microscope camera (olympus XC50) on my Arch Linux system.

$ dvgrab
Error: no camera exists

$ ffmpeg -f iec61883 -i auto
[iec61883 @ 0x558ade5499c0] No AV/C devices found. 

Some potentially useful data:

$ dmesg | grep firewire
firewire_ohci 0000:04:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 4 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x2
firewire_core 0000:04:00.0: created device fw0: GUID 0001b71100008f57, S400
firewire_core 0000:04:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
firewire_core 0000:04:00.0: created device fw1: GUID 00beaf0086044011, S400

$ lspci -vvv |rg 'IEEE 1394' -A50
04:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments XIO2200A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Texas Instruments Device 2200
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
        Region 0: Memory at f7d04000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Region 1: Memory at f7d00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME+

I have exhausted all potentially relevant archlinux forum threads, and extensively searched reddit, google and many other places.

Any pointers? I am afraid the camera is recognized as a firewire device but, crucially, not as a camera.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Does it matter too much to choose between a SATA III ssd with or without DRAM for an ancient laptop (circa 2008)?

The cheapest SATAIII SSDS with DRAM, available in my market (Mexico), are the WD Blue series and Adata's SU800. Sometimes the Crucial MX500 pops up for sale in Amazon or Mercado Libre (the Mexican equivalent of eBay) but the price is consistently above the previous two.

Any Samsung SSD is out the question, the price for the drive itself is way too expensive for such an ancient piece of hardware... Just wait to read the specs down below.

Or... Is it ok for this case-scenario to get a dram-less ssd? Adata's su630 and Kingston's a400 SSDs are the cheapest options available in my area, while the Patriot Burst Elite sometimes is for sale at around the same price. WD Green and Crucial BX500 are available too, but the price increase for the BX500 is substancial -which makes me wonder if such a spending is justified for this laptop-.The current hard drive is a 5400rpm spinner over sata III/300mbps.

This machine is going to be used primarily for media streaming at 1080p (which currently does fairly well), and light web browsing, and as a spare computer for some productivity work: small zoom or Google Meet conferences (4-6 participants at most), reading PDF files and some office work once in a while (it runs office 365 reasonably good once it's loaded on memory). There's also the nostalgia factor: this was my high school and early college gear.

So, no multitasking for sure and no more than 4 or 5 tabs at once, as it becomes painstakingly slow!

I'll appreciate your feedback on this regard. I will upgrade to an SSD for sure, just want to make the best decision possible for the old Sony ;)

----------------Current specs:

-Brand and model: Sony Vaio VGN-NS150FJ (PCG-7141P)

-CPU: Core 2 Duo t5900 2.2GHz (stock, 65nm, 2 cores, 2 threads, 2 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz fsb, 64 bit)(will re-grease the heatsink when ordering the ssd)

-Memory: two 2gb DDR2 6400 banks (don't know their timings but, c'mon: it's old tech for 2021 anyway)

-Chipset and graphics: Mobile Intel GMA 4500M, DirectX 12 (according to dxdiag) WDDM 1.1; I assume it's got shared memory instead of dedicated.

-Os: Windows 10 21H1 64 bit, build 19043.1288 (might try to unofficially install win11 just for fun, and to see how far can this dinosaur get: it originally came with Vista!)

-Storage: WD Scorpio Blue 500gb, SATA/300

-Weight: about a ton... No, seriously: it was heavy back in th

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

So this isn't going to be a how-to. Only to tell you that I accomplished and give you a basic rundown on what I did.

First of my hardware is a Sony Vaio laptop. Output of lshw.

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    capabilities: smbios-2.6 dmi-2.6 smp vsyscall32
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook family=VAIO sku=N/A uuid=C0848E02-C1DD-DE11-87C4-0024BEE99F1F
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: VAIO
       vendor: Sony Corporation
       physical id: 0
       version: N/A
       serial: C1047K9X
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: INSYDE
          physical id: 0
          version: R0280Q3
          date: 01/07/2010
          size: 1MiB
          capacity: 2MiB
          capabilities: pci pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd int9keyboard int10video acpi usb smartbattery biosbootspecification netboot
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 7
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 8GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: SODIMM DDR3
             physical id: 0
             slot: SODIMM1
             size: 4GiB
             width: 64 bits
        *-bank:1
             description: SODIMM DDR3
             physical id: 1
             slot: SODIMM2
             size: 4GiB
             width: 64 bits
     *-cpu
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          product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU       M 430  @ 2.27GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: d
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU       M 430  @ 2.27GHz
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Pilot on me!!

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• "A September of Victory" = 1776 latin-agrippa
• ... ( "The Supreme Ruler" = 1776 trigonal )
• ... .. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruler ]

> A ruler, sometimes called a rule or line gauge, is a device used in geometry and technical drawing, as well as the engineering and construction industries, to measure distances or draw straight lines

Line Gauge @ Linegauge @ Language ( Linkage )

Measured Words. Language as Line Gauge - as Ruler (or add-vice for Rulers):

https://www.wired.com/story/the-case-for-video-game-tutorials/

> In my time on this earth I’ve pledged allegiance to many masters. Learned men and women: Buddhists, dissidents, Jedi. Their words—always measured—tend to echo at critical junctures. [..]

• "Important Conversation" = 911 primes

There are many 911's on this page, and they come thick and fast towards the end.

Dear reader... do you have an attention span?

... .. .. ... 'A1A' ... .. .. ...

The word 'Delta' means 'change', in scientific terminology, and some things are changed by permutation.

Something important happened (or became vicariously visible, we might say) in 2019, that set the stage for the following year(s), changing everything.

How to...

• "Permute the Letters" = 2019 trigonal

Example, the obvious:

• "A September of Victory" = 1776 latin-agrippa
• "September of a Victory" = 1776 latin-agrippa
• "A Victory of September" = 1776 latin-agrippa

.. .and slightly less obvious, but no less relevant, arguably:

• ... "Ember of a Sept Victory" = 1776 latin-agrippa [ don't think too hard on it ]
• ... "A Victory Step of Ember" = 1776 latin-agrippa [ MBR @ MPR ] [ Of/a @ Oaf, ie. 'delta'/'change' ]

Again:

> Line Gauge @ Linegauge @ Language ( Linkage )

Quantum-entangled letters and numbers (and Twin Towers wired together):

• "A=1: September of Victory" = 1,777 latin-agrippa
• "1 1 : September of Victory" = 1,777 latin-agrippa
• ... ( "Numeric Ritual" = 777 latin-agrippa )
• .. .. ( "Cryptic Riddle" = 777 latin-agrippa )
• ... .. .. ( "The Agenda" = 777 squares )
• ... .. .. .. ( "Citizen" = 777 trigonal )

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.