[Wylug-help] New camcorder with usb2 transfer

[Andy Davidson]

On 22 Jan 2007, at 16:16, Anne Wilson wrote:

> My new camcorder has usb2 transfer with software for windows and  
> mac.  I can't believe that it's not possible in linux, but I've no  
> idea where to start.

This is fairly generic advice, because I don't know the camcorder in  
question, and have never tried connecting one to a computer, but  
maybe one of the following suggestions might bring you close to an  
answer

  - what's the storage format ?  Is there some kind of removable  
flash-technology that you can just take out of the camera, and put  
into a usb card reader ?  This would present itself to your computer  
as a usb mass-storage drive (check dmesg after plugging it in to see  
what to mount with the mount command, perhaps your distribution would  
mount it for you ?)  Then you can copy the files off straight to your  
disk.

  - What appears in dmesg when you plug the camcorder in via usb.   
Taking the output and googling that, or maybe the output of lsusb  
would give you more pointers.

  - Posting model numbers of the camcorder might get you more  
specific info from the group.




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