[Wylug-help] New camcorder with usb2 transfer

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 22 January 2007 17:36, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> > I have had pretty good success in getting data via USB from my digital
> > camera, which also supports some movie formats, using Digicam.  I have
> > found that it works pretty well from scratch on a newish Kubuntu
> > installation.
> >
> > On my camera there is a MPT(?  Microshaft Picture Transfer of some such))
> > transfer format, and rather than searching for my camera in the config
> > list you just choose the MPT? camera via USB and it works.
>
> I believe digital cameras are normally different to video cameras. 
> Firewire cameras consider video data to be a stream, whereas a typical usb
> digital camara (using PTP) considers itself to be a store of photos.  So
> I'm not sure there would be much relation between the two.  I've only ever
> used kino with video cameras, and that's firewire only AFAIK.
>
After huge amount of googling, I finally realised that iLink is the same as 
firewire.  Now all I need is the right cable - I'll shop for that tomorrow.

Thanks to all for the replies.  They pushed me in the right direction.

Anne
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