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John Abreau wrote: >> Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: >>> 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! > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Matthew Gillen <[hidden email]> wrote: >> Here's a more thorough description: >> http://pvrusb2.dax.nu/ >> > > > You get a DV stream from the firewire port of a MiniDV camcorder. > That's uncompressed video, and for standard definition NTSC, it > works out to about 12 GB per hour of video. > > The pvrusb2 provides an MPEG2 stream, which I believe is somewhere > around 1 GB per hour. > > I would be really surprised if you could pull a clean DV stream across > a usb connection.
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