On Tuesday 02 December 2003 00:21, Stephen Crampton wrote: > I have a Sony camcorder too. I don't believe you can get video over USB > under Linux or M$ Windows. I think the camera's only designed to send > video over firewire. > > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 00:16, Vardhan Varma wrote: > > Hello, > > If this is not the forum, please suggest proper place to ask. > > > > I've a sony camcorder, which connects over USB cable. I've > > been able to use usb-mass-storage to retrieve the pictures > > from it under linux-2.4 kernel. > > I'm trying how to get the video. The usbmgr just loads > > the 'audio' driver, when i plug the usb. > > > > I guess the webcam's do work using v4l. Is camcorder-playback > > any different than a webcam-playback ? > > > > Is video-over-USB a 'standard' protocol ? Does Sony follows it ? > > > > > > --Regards > > --Vardhan i have seen some cameras that have s-video out. to get movies from these type of cameras, you need some sort of s-video in port. that is the extent of my knowledge of this, sorry if it isnt of much help. tyche
