camcorder and knoppix 3.3

[pau]

Hi,

I am about to buy a camcorder but I want something that works without any problems with Knoppix 3.3 (of course). I have seen a sony dcr-trv19e
(http://www.unbeatable.com/products/P...ydcrtrv19e.asp)

and it looks fine for me. The question is... which hardware do I need in my laptop? I have heard about kino and coriander but I am not sure I got the point... Can I make films with the camcorder and give them a readeble format for a dvd player? (_not_ avi or DiVx) Does some of you have experience? Do I need an extra-card or device?? What about the port? This camcorder has not usb... what is the protocol?

thanks,

Pau

Here you are my lspci -v :

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630 Host (rev 31)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [c0] AGP version 2.0

00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS5513 EIDE Controller (A,B step)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 16
I/O ports at ff00 [size=16]

00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 82)
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp: Unknown device 5002
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at dffc0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at dffa0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
Memory at dffd0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Onboard USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
Memory at dffe0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02)
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp: Unknown device 5002
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
Memory at dfff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:01.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Intel 537 [56k Winmodem] (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp: Unknown device 4003
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
I/O ports at d800 [size=128]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: dfe00000-dfefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: cfc00000-dfcfffff

00:03.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6812 Cardbus Controller (rev 05)
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp: Unknown device 3000
Flags: bus master, stepping, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI Accelerator+3D (rev 31) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp: Unknown device 5002
Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel
BIST result: 00
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at dfee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
I/O ports at ac80 [size=128]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0

[aay]

Pretty much all the DV recorders use firewire. It looks like you don't have firewire on this box. You'll need to get a card for it (pci for a desktop pcmcia for a laptop). I haven't done this before, but I suspect that your best bet is to get on google and start looking for cards that are well supported under linux. That's how I would proceed anyway.