The Buz/Linux homepage!

This page is severely obsolete and only kept for historical reasons.
Please consult the mailing lists on MJPEG Tools page for up-to-date help !

This webpage is aimed at providing information about the Iomega Buz(tm) box and its support for Linux.

NEWS

• (20010311)Latest buz drivers (AND dc10+ AND lml33) are at http://www.cicese.mx/~mirsev/Linux/DC10plus/, they work on 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels. Latest software versions of mjpegtools (a merger of the buz_tools and the lavtools) are at mjpeg.sourceforge.net (beta as well as CVS versions).
• (20010302)The Buz-Linux mailing list has ceased to exist. It has been moved to the MJPEG tools user list on the MJPEG/Linux square. All subscribers have been autosubscribed to the new list.
• (20001104) Due to tough university studies I had to reduce my Video/Linux efforts to a minimum, and therefore I put all updates on this site on hold - but you can still see some progress going on in The MJPEG Linux square, if you are interested ... you are of course always welcome to mail me, too !
• (20000601) I am currently working on a software movtar player which can be found in a first alpha release on The MJPEG Linux square...
• (20000601) Another MJPEG breakthrough ! Serguei Miridonov has brought the Miro DC10+ driver (done by Wolfgang Scherr) in a fully functional state and released it on the Miro DC10/Linux page. My congratulations !
  
• (20000420) Mike Bernson is currently heavily involved in driver development for the LML33 card, and is eventually going to merge it with the Buz driver. Check out his LML33/Linux driver page.
• (20000402) Martin Samuelsson has reverse-engineered the contacts of the Buz breakout box - See the FAQ on the documentation pages (on the left) to find out more !
• (20000324) A new version of the lavtools has been released ! Click here to download lavtools 1.2, or have a look at Rainer's homepage (link to the left).
• (20000324) The Buz mailing list archive has been fixed again (see below on how to access it).
• (20000324) (Gernot speaking) Sorry for not posting for such a long time, I was first busy with school, and then I started to play around with the Matrox Rainbow Runner/Marvel for Linux project (see the Marvel/Linux homepage !), and try to make their Motion JPEG hardware run, which takes up a lot of my developing time in the moment - this is also the reason why I haven't improved the buz_tools in the last time. They will eventually merge with the lavtools (=> I will integrate movtar-support into the lavtools), and thereby making use of all the advanced features of the lavtools.
• (20000115) Rainer's MJPEG extensions have been officially adopted by V4L (thanks to Alan Cox), and are the new "standard" for MJPEG card drivers implementing V4L.
• (20000115) Welcome to the new millennium !
  

  I'm alive again ! After three weeks in Austria, a test in English and Mathematics I can start to play around with video hardware again :-) Some news:

  • I ordered a Rainbow Runner and a DVD-upgrade for my Matrox G200, as a delayed christmas present for myself ... today I should get myself a DVD-drive, too, otherwise it would be a bit hard to read the bits off the DVD with my own pocket toy laser ;)
  • We got a mailing list for gimp-video@webmages.com, but just some days afterwards I heard that....
  • broadcast2000 was released in GPL !!! I haven't had a look at it yet, but Rainer had (you certainly already saw it on buz-linux)... now I am not really sure in what to put my developing efforts, I think I will have a look at broadcast 2000 before I decide ....
  • Rainer suggested to merge the lavtools with the buz_tools .... A good idea I thought, as the UI and the driver backend are quite similar ... this will take some time to materialize, Rainer is just about to finish his new lavtools ....
  In the moment I have to refocus in my developing efforts, and see what I want to work on in the near future ... the G200 is very interesting, both the DVD-plugin and the MJPEG video thing (did you know that the Rainbow Runner uses the ZR36060, too ? 8-) ) ... on the other hand, I have to finish some plugins in gimp-video, but there I ask myself if I shouldn't start developing for broadcast 2000, instead - well, we'll see ...