
Note: Updated Lurker's Guide available (but not this page!)This page belongs to the old 1990s SGI Lurker's Guide. As of 2008, several of the Lurker's Guide pages have been updated for HDTV and for modern OS platforms like Windows and Mac. This particular page is not one of those, but you can see what new stuff is available here. Thanks!
Many developers have asked us how to make an SGI do field-accurate capture from and laydown to a directly connected Sony-Protocol RS-422 VTR. This section provides some hints to help you accomplish this:
You can obtain an aggravatingly poorly translated, overpriced jinglish translation of Sony's "BVW/DVW Protocol Manual 9-977-544-01" by contacting your Sony rep. Or, you can read Rick Davis' excellent "lurker's guide" to the Sony protocol and get almost all the same information.
Perhaps the hardest thing about implementing direct deck control is the small but critical variations between behavior on different "Sony Protocol" decks. Almost none of these variations are documented: you have to have each deck to detect and work around them. Often a single make and model of deck will exhibit variations based on its firmware rev. We will show you code that works on a Sony DVW-A500, and point out some of the more blatant areas where decks differ (such as edit delay). Supporting lots of different decks is up to you.
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