Realtime FW DVcam grab and display on MacMiniG4/MorphOS

[Piru]

Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez of the Blender MorphOS Port fame has been busy working on FireWire stack for MorphOS (Helios). It's progressing rather well:

[youtube]vtrKtMmysnQ[/youtube]

Here I've upgraded my get61883 code with a MUI gui and a vlayer display. I've integrated also FFMPEG DV decoder.

So what your're watching in this video is a realtime decoding and displaying of the firewire DV stream from my DV cam.
And for sure: Helios FW stack powered ;-)

The new version doing video cams isn't out yet I think, but version supporting block devices such as HDDs and Macs in Target Disk Mode is here:
aminet:driver/other/Helios_0.4-svn_r560.lha

[Piru]

Most of the HW MorphOS supports does have a FireWire connector. No-one is forced to use FW and people can keep using USB2 if they like. At least I welcome an easy way to quickly connect a Mac to a MorphOS box and have access to the HDD (Target Mode). USB2 can't do that, unless if I open the Mac, remove the HDD and place it to a USB enclosure.

Sure you could use smbfs but samba is slower than firewire, and there are quite a bit of setting up to do, unlike with this firewire target mode.

I bought a device that can be used to connect 2.5" and 3.5" SATA HDDs in various ways. Connectivity includes USB2, FW400, FW800 and eSATA. Out of these USB2 is clearly the slowest. Now I have an option to use firewire as well.