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Re: Capture video from MiniDV over USB?



 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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