From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: September 7, 2009 11:01:30 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Multiple display support



On 7-Sep-09, at 10:45 AM, stuppt wrote:


--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:


No it it isn't possible. One Application controls one Device.


That's what I thought myself.


Firewire does have the ability to allow additional (all on the same

FireWire bus of course) devices access an isochronous video stream to

display it. So in theory you could have up to 62 Macs and a camera

daisy chained together and alll would be able to see the same stream


Indeed, my cam has two Firewire ports.


Number of ports has nothing to do with this. That simply allows you to daisy chain to another device (primarily a Camera).


So I could attach my cam simultaneously to a Mac (Astro IIDC) AND a Firewire-to-analog converter which is connected to a LCD/Beamer (for fullscreen live view)?


It will not work. The standard Firewire-to-analog convert only understands the DV AVC Protocol (IEEE 61833), where as the FireWire cameras only speaks the IIDC Protocol. It's like one device speaks Chinese and another speaks English.


HTH..


Milton Aupperle