{"id":49,"date":"2005-08-28T00:43:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T08:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/28\/cvs-camcorder\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T18:11:05","slug":"cvs-camcorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/28\/cvs-camcorder\/","title":{"rendered":"cvs camcorder"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was able to get my hands on a CVS camcorder<\/a> this past week. The unit is very cool. It doesn’t have any features of a “real” video camera, but I view it like a super-version of my Digital camera which can take 15 seconds worth of video at a time. This one is only limited by available storage (about 20 minutes). The resolution can be turned up to 640×480<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

Initially I couldn’t get a cable built<\/a> for it. I had a spare USB cable and a spare Palm Pilot cable to merge, but after soldering it all together, the device wouldn’t take an address (but my laptop noticed it was getting plugged in). After a hint from Linus (“plug-ins are detected via power-draw, everything else is over the data lines”), I realized that perhaps the USB data wires were reversed (the cable has got to flip them on at least one end of the cable… I just got unlucky).<\/p>\n

The software for downloading the videos had been ported to Linux<\/a>, and I worked on some more code to have a one-shot ability to download all the videos<\/a> from the camera. Now I’ve got autoconf\/automake working for it, and have gotten myself added to the Saturn Tools<\/a> project where we can all work on the code through SourceForge’s CVS. Much easier than endlessly trading patches. :)<\/p>\n

So far, I’ve managed to wreck the splash-screen image during camera bootup. Something is busted with the usb_bulk_write calls, and the device stops taking writes after 4k worth of data. Hopefully I can get that repaired so I can be greeted by the Laughing Man<\/a>. I’ve also got a JPG all ready to replace the logo screen, “powered by pure digital technology”, with my oh-so-clever “powered by pwnd digital technology”.<\/p>\n

© 2005 – 2016, Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.
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