[TriLUG] Reading camcorder via USB
Owen Berry
oberry at trilug.org
Wed Mar 22 22:13:50 EST 2006
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
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