[TriLUG] Reading camcorder via USB

[Owen Berry]

Are you sure you can read video over the USB connection on this camera?
Mine only allows downloading of still shots over USB - firewire is
required for video download.

Owen

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 22:06 -0500, T. Bryan wrote:
> Okay, so I still haven't bought a firewire card.  I'm sure that will happen 
> soon.
> 
> But in the meantime, I have a Panasonic PV-GS 150 camcorder.  It includes a 
> USB interface, so I hooked it up to my Debian box to see what would happen.  
> Here's what I see in /var/log/messages/.
> 
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> Vendor: Matshita  Model: DVC               Rev: 1.00
> Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
> 
> Um...okay.  Now what?  Any ideas?
> 
> I've never tried to pull video off of this camcorder before.  I've been 
> content to hook it up directly to a TV and play back from tape, but now I 
> have several tapes that I'd like to convert to DVDs or something.  I just 
> wanted to see whether I could get away without having to spring for a 
> firewire card at the moment.
> 
> Thanks,
> ---Tom