Here's an interesting article on the state of things concerning video apps on the Linux plattform. I wouldn't go so far as calling it "The State of the Art" as the article does but here it goes.
The article lists what would mostly be described as hobbyist software. Since it is now exactly ten years since MacOS and Windows got built in support för IEEE1934 video devices and those plattforms are now moving on to more "state of the art" ways of getting digital video onto harddrives it kind of amazes me that Linux are still actually wrestling with it. Right now HDMI is replacing FireWire on a lot of devices. The one thing developers should really look a right now are things like XML. It's getting less and less important to be able to run DV25 over FireWire with new things like on board memory stick recording like Panasonics P2 and Mpeg-2 capturing straight to micro drives. IEEE1394 is not going to stick with the prosumer market for much longer and the high end market have never - and never will - touch DV25 och HDV over FireWire.
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