1. (Linear) Computer Video Editors / Video Overlay boxes & Linux
I know of three products that consist of some sort of "Smart Cable" (PC
serial port => LANC/IR) and an "Video Overlay" box (Camcorder & VGA in, Out
to VCR & VGA monitor, genlocked/scan converter):
Sima's Model SAK (hardware made by Avermedia)
Pinnacle's Video Studio 200
and MicroJack's Video editor
All of these appear to be effective MS-Windows based "black boxes", in
the sense that the system is closed and proprietary with effectively no
real third-party software support -- yes Pinnacle has SDK's, but only for
MS-Windows 95, with only MS-Windows 95 DLLs.
Are there other products out there? Are there any with *any* sort of
(useful) technical documentation? I don't have MS-Windows installed on
any of my computers (and won't install it either). I run pure Linux
systems on Intel x86 processors. I am a professional computer
programmer -- if I had some basic technical documentation on the
programming modes, control bytes, and software protocols for a device
like this I am sure I could easily write the driver and control software
to manage one of these units (or something like them). I have sent
E-Mail to the various companies involved and I have not received any
really useful information.
I have seen some information about home brewing up a "Smart Cable" of
sorts (i.e. interfacing a serial port to a LANC interface and building a
remote control IR emitter connected to a computer, somehow -- parallel
port or something), but I have not seen home brew "Video Overlay"
hardware described anywhere.
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