is there such a thing?

[Charles Perkins]

Hi,

i doubt it as i cant find it, but is there such a thing as a firewire to ethernet adaptor?

basically, becuase i cant find a firewire cable long enough (100+metres) and i belive cat6 would be able to transmit the data.

so i would have an adaptor on the camera, then cat6 cable, then another adaptor into a laptop.

is this possible?

[Tim Goldman]

it's been a while last i did any real IT. But it hink your doing apples to oranges and such. Ether net isn't set up to work like firewire, firewire does one thing and thats it (i know it's all transition of data) and ether net is just differnt. You'd have to do it all firewire or all cat 6 i think, the two won't matchup. Course some one is likely to post a reply proving me wrong, so i'll just give you the standered help desk answers

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[Denis Danatzko]

as it's been quite a while since I did any real IT work myself.

I believe the max length of a firewire cable is about 10 meters..,MUCH shorter than you want.

You MAY be able to do what you want using a firewire hub and/or repeater(s). I know such products are available. (see firewiredirect.com) However, I suspect they still may not provide the distance you want.
This one (www.firewiredirect.com/product/116/) only extends the max distance by 15 ft, and costs $ 85. You'd need quite a few, AND quite a few bucks, to reach the distance you want.

Pehaps you should check into something wireless, which I know even less about.

Good luck.

[George Ellis]

Check with a company like www.cablesforless.com. They do custom cables and although not listed, might make them. Their 15' firewire 400 is $9.95. They have a good reputation.

[Charles Perkins]

Originally Posted by George Ellis

Check with a company like www.cablesforless.com. They do custom cables and although not listed, might make them. Their 15' firewire 400 is $9.95. They have a good reputation.

thanks i'll look into them.

also, i ask this becuase i knwo you can network two computers over firewire so i know that in theory it can be done.

[Steve House]

Originally Posted by Charles Perkins

thanks i'll look into them.

also, i ask this becuase i knwo you can network two computers over firewire so i know that in theory it can be done.

The Firewire ethernet "adapters" aren't adapters - they're external ethernet cards talking to the computer bus via the Firewire port. But the computer has to recognise the cards and know what to do with it. Networking two computers that way is no problem because each of them knows what to do with the card. But what you're suggesting, networking a computer to a camera, is more problematic. No problem on the computer end but I would be surprised if the camera recognizes an ethernet card plugged into its firewire port. And then there's the bandwidth issue - ethernet is 100 MbS while firewire is 400 or 800. So if the camera does recognize the adapter, then there's the issue of whether it can accept the camera's data stream fast enough. It's worth a try, of course, but I wouldn't spend a bunch of money on it without first making sure it'll work - I'm skeptical that it will.

[Tim Goldman]

the new canon has the hd-video out in he jack pack (to a deck of course). i think thats about a close as it gets. The p2 has a ou, bu that's also to a deck i think, maybe it's pcima, who knows. (well some one with a p2 might know)

[Martin Mayer]

Have a look at this, Charles. In UK, too!

[Tim Goldman]

yeah, but what your stuck with is a very expensive way of not being able to do video. 100 mps isn't fsat enough (just look at video confrensing over the internet). I supose that device has it uses, but i don't htink this application would work.

[Matt Davis]

Originally Posted by Tim Goldman

100 mps isn't fsat enough (just look at video confrensing over the internet).

100 Mbps - 4x DV (at 25 Mbps), 2x DVCPRo-50 (at 50 Mbps) or 1x DVCPro-HD (at 100 Mbps). Video conferencing over the internet starts at 64Kbps per channel, usually wanting 3x paired ISDN at 128 Kbps each.

Remembering numbers like this is why I forget my wife's birthday... :D (perhaps she should have been born 25/6 or 10/24 in the US)

[Tim Goldman]

My point is soemthing brilliant which makes alot of sense, and everyone agrees is truely great. However, i forgot my point, so lemme ask, is that borad cast quality? I know they do duets between singers of isdn, but couod you say..film a movie in zanzabar and have a computer in Vladivastock record it in any sort of sd or dr quality (with stereo sound).

[A. J. deLange]

Originally Posted by Martin Mayer

Have a look at this, Charles. In UK, too!

This is NOT a Firewire to Ethernet adapter. It is a Fire Wire "Bus Extender". All it is doing is re-encoding the Firewire packets into a form more immune to the things that limit fire wire cable length. These may include changing the voltages and the modulation and may include things like adaptive equalization, forward error correction etc. (at the price those techniques should certainly be in there) but nothing is said about Ethernet protocols being adhered to. IOW it is Firwire in at one end and Firewire out at the other. You can't connect Firewire to one end and Ethernet (computer or Internet) to the other. At least not the way I read the specs.

[Frank Hool]

why You need so big distance? Are You doing live broadcast? Asking because i did such little while ago. And found that best for such thing was following setup: camcorder -> normal firewire cable -> laptop(pc equipped with dv software with ability to show fullscreen video) -> vga cable -> kvm hub -> cat5 cable(up to 150m) -> kvm hub -> video projector -> big screen.