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Awesome :-). May try that trick! On 4/17/08, Matthew Gillen <[hidden email]> wrote: > Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Kristian Erik Hermansen <[hidden email]> > > Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:41 PM > > Subject: Capture video from MiniDV over USB? > > To: Linux user Group <[hidden email]> > > > > > > I have googled around and many solutions don't appear to allow me to > > grab the video from my new camera without using firewire. Has anyone > > here personally been able to use USB? Thanks for your time! > > If there's not a linux driver that knows how to talk to your device, but > there > is a windows driver, sometimes you can use this trick where you use USBSnoop > on a windows box to capture the USB commands to start the device streaming > data back to the computer. Then you can use a perl script to write those > saved commands to the raw USB device while in linux. > > Here's a more thorough description: > http://pvrusb2.dax.nu/ > > I actually used that trick a few years back, so I know it works (or at least > works with that particular A-to-D converter). > > HTH, > Matt >
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