A Professional Tape Drive For $60? Continued
The functional principle looks like this: The camcorder is connected by FireWire (IEEE1394) to a PC or notebook of your choice. The software controls the DV camcorder to record (backup) and play (restore) - similar to a traditional video-editing program. The DV video format merely serves as a sort of container, since any number of files and directories can be written to tape. In any case, from a purely technical point of view, it doesn't make any difference what sort of data is written to DV. When saving, DV Streamer PRO writes a special header on the tape that contains data size, start and end time and directory structure.
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