Re: Fwd: Capture video from MiniDV over USB?

["Matthew Gillen" <user=50@nabble.blu.org>]

 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.