Are you sure you can read video over the USB connection on this camera? Mine only allows downloading of still shots over USB - firewire is required for video download.
Owen On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 22:06 -0500, T. Bryan wrote: > Okay, so I still haven't bought a firewire card. I'm sure that will happen > soon. > > But in the meantime, I have a Panasonic PV-GS 150 camcorder. It includes a > USB interface, so I hooked it up to my Debian box to see what would happen. > Here's what I see in /var/log/messages/. > > Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage > USB Mass Storage support registered. > Vendor: Matshita Model: DVC Rev: 1.00 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 > sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda > > Um...okay. Now what? Any ideas? > > I've never tried to pull video off of this camcorder before. I've been > content to hook it up directly to a TV and play back from tape, but now I > have several tapes that I'd like to convert to DVDs or something. I just > wanted to see whether I could get away without having to spring for a > firewire card at the moment. > > Thanks, > ---Tom -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
