use itouch as external camcorder lcd monitor?

[whiteside1000]

does anyone know how to use an itouch as an external video monitor for a camcorder? I have a Canon XL2 (which only has a viewfinder but no swing-out lcd viewfinder) and I would love it if I could feed the video signal directly from the videoout/firewire out from the camcorder to it. I have been told that this is basically possible, but requires a little software solution... any information regarding this would be terrific!
Thanks,
andrew

 

[Roy Hobbs]

does anyone know how to use an itouch as an external video monitor for a camcorder? I have a Canon XL2 (which only has a viewfinder but no swing-out lcd viewfinder) and I would love it if I could feed the video signal directly from the videoout/firewire out from the camcorder to it. I have been told that this is basically possible, but requires a little software solution... any information regarding this would be terrific!
Thanks,
andrew

What is an iTouch??

 

[whiteside1000]

what is an iTOUCH

it's what the iPod Touch is called here in Europe...

 

[Roy Hobbs]

it's what the iPod Touch is called here in Europe...

By whom?? Certainly not by Apple.

But to answer your question I don't think what you are asking is possible. Maybe with the SDK developers can whip up something to help in the future.

 

[LouisBlack]

He's right. It's not called an iTouch (shudder) in Europe.

I don't think what you are asking would be possible. The iPod Touch would either have to connect by WiFi or by USB. As USB uses a master/slave setup for controlling devices, I assume both would be a slave device. They would therefore lack the functionality to handshake.

I wonder if it would have been possible with Firewire...

And wi-fi would be flakey, unreliable and probably way too slow for viewing full quality video feeds.

 

[fluidedge]

totally impossible.

Don't even know why you'd want to do this. You'll see the Powerbook G5 before this 'feature'