[CVALE] Capturing Video On Linux

[jon]

Landon:

    I have a adapter you can borrow, it is the one I have been *trying* 
to use.  It is a Pinnacle USB-500 video capture.  It is independent of 
the computer and has both firewire and USB from it to the computer.  It 
is known that USB 2.0 is faster than IEEE1394 in specs.  480 vs 400.  
USB I had thought would have been more supported.  Just kept thinking I 
was looking in the wrong places.s

I have tried firewire on this computer with the Pinnacle USB-500 unit 
and in no case on either OS unit work with the supplied 
firewire...er...wire?  Firewire cable.

I can stream video over the USB through XP, but even Efty Eft does not 
recognize the hardware.  It is seen as "Unknown" but I am not anywhere 
near good enough to write anything that would help.  (Read Pakled?)  

But I will keep trying.  Someone somewhere will have wanted to do the 
same thing. 

Anyway, keep looking and I'll do the same, it will work eventually. 

I have faith.
Jon

Landon Blake wrote:
> Jon,
>
> I was not able to find a solution that worked. (I must admit I didn't
> thoroughly pursue USB video drivers for Linux. It looks like this area
> of Linux needs a little more time to mature.)
>
> I'm fairly positive that my video camera doesn't have a fire2wire port.
> Maybe they make a USB-To-Fire2Wire adapter?
>
> I think this illustrates the importance of knowing your hardware before
> you make a purchase, but in this case the camera was a gift from my
> great-grandfather, who is not a technical whiz. :]
>
> Landon
>
> P.S. - When I have time to follow up on this and find a solution I will
> report back to the list.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com
> [mailto:cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com] On Behalf Of jon
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 4:49 PM
> To: cvale at cvale.org
> Subject: Re: [CVALE] Capturing Video On Linux
>
> Landon-
>
> Did you ever get this figured out? I also have the same issue. I was 
> waiting to see if anything worked for you. Learning vicariously I 
> suppose! ;)
>
>
> Jon
>
>
> Landon Blake wrote:
>   
>> There's only one or two things that I still do on my Wife's MS Windows
>>     
>
>   
>> box. Everything else I do on Linux! Not bad for a noob. :]
>>
>> I'm trying to eliminate on of the things that I still do on MS 
>> Windows, which is video editing. I think I've found the tools I need 
>> with XVidCap and Kino. (I'm preparing some video tutorials for the 
>> open source program I work on.) However, I don't see a way to capture 
>> Video from my digital camcorder using a USB connection, which is what 
>> I do on MS Windows. I did some searching on the internet while I was 
>> at lunch today, but I didn't find a solution that jumped out at me.
>>
>> Is anyone capturing video via USB? Can anyone give me some help with
>>     
> this?
>   
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Landon
>>
>>
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