About the P2 cards

[Barry Green]

[Bud] “Will the firestore have benefits like the P2, i.e. instant playback of selected shots/clips and the ability to delete a bad take easily?”
It is my understanding that yes, it will have those capabilities. I was quite surprised to hear it, but apparently Panasonic has been working in partnership with them to make sure it does those things and has provided whatever firewire controls were necessary to make it work. Obviously we won’t know for 100% certain until it ships, but I believe the current plan is to allow exactly that functionality.

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[Barry Green]

[Blub] “I have thought for some time that that proprietary P2 connection is the most interesting place to hack on the camera.”

Get this — one of the camera engineers in the Panasonic booth told a customer that the internals of the HVX are running Linux and an Apache web server. So if someone were a skilled Linux programmer and could somehow hack into it… well, heck, if Matteo could saw the lens off his FX1 and make it an interchangeable lens, what could a home hacker do with a full Linux operating system in there? Fun times ahead, hopefully! 😉

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[Toke]

[Barry Green] “the internals of the HVX are running Linux”

Hmm, interesting…
Linux is licenced under Gnu GPL and if panny has made any alterations to it, they should publish the source code like Nokia did after releasing 770.

[Graeme Nattress]

I doubt they’ve hacked the kernel. It’s probably just stuff running on top of embedded linux.

Graeme

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