I have a video camera, TRV-260, which works nicely and has the Sony IR
low light capability. It also has USB rather than Firewire for
connectivity. Any thoughts on getting data out of this without huge loss
of picture quality?


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Bill Davidsen wrote:
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> Any thoughts on getting data out of this without huge loss
> of picture quality?

have you considered 'dcraw'?
http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/


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Bill Davidsen wrote:

g wrote:




Great site, but doesn't seem to address the problem.



Have you tried Kino? It's a KDE app, but it works in GNOME and I"ve
successfully used it to pull raw video data from a Sony camcorder via
USB. It's slower than the firewire connection on my laptop, but it
still works pretty well.




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Bill Davidsen wrote:
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Any thoughts on getting data out of this without huge loss
of picture quality?


have you considered 'dcraw'?
http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/


The site you provide is awesome, and I have all manner of uses for the
software, but it's really not related to controlling a DV camera in
playback mode through a USB connection, AFAIK. If the connection were
Firewire there is a plethora of available software, but it isn't.


I think I can connect using NTSC video capture, but that's not what I
want at all.


Great site, but doesn't seem to address the problem.

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Bill Davidsen wrote:
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> The site you provide is awesome, and I have all manner of uses for the
> software, but it's really not related to controlling a DV camera in
> playback mode through a USB connection, AFAIK. If the connection were
> Firewire there is a plethora of available software, but it isn't.

for coffin to have come up with 'dcraw' and it have ability to do what it does,
i would think that it could also be used with a 'usb' connection instead of,
'firewire'.

i may be wrong. but if i had need, i would definitely contact him before i
gave up on it.

kino is another possibility, as mark henry stated. choice is yours.

> Great site, but doesn't seem to address the problem.

was 'usb' available at time he wrote 'dcraw'?

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Mark Haney wrote:

Bill Davidsen wrote:

g wrote:




Great site, but doesn't seem to address the problem.



Have you tried Kino? It's a KDE app, but it works in GNOME and I"ve
successfully used it to pull raw video data from a Sony camcorder via
USB. It's slower than the firewire connection on my laptop, but it
still works pretty well.


Just back in town after a week out of state w/ no net connection (and
little cell coverage). I am relaxed but busy, and will try some of this
later this week. I would like the importing software to break the
various recorded sessions into separate files, all else is easy.


I'll let you know.

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On Monday 25 August 2008, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>Mark Haney wrote:
>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> g wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Great site, but doesn't seem to address the problem.
>>
>> Have you tried Kino? It's a KDE app, but it works in GNOME and I"ve
>> successfully used it to pull raw video data from a Sony camcorder via
>> USB. It's slower than the firewire connection on my laptop, but it
>> still works pretty well.
>
>Just back in town after a week out of state w/ no net connection (and
>little cell coverage). I am relaxed but busy, and will try some of this
>later this week. I would like the importing software to break the
>various recorded sessions into separate files, all else is easy.
>
Kino, when importing from the camera over firewire, does exactly that when it
detects a scene change.

>I'll let you know.
>
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Gene Heskett wrote:

On Monday 25 August 2008, Bill Davidsen wrote:

Mark Haney wrote:

Bill Davidsen wrote:

g wrote:


Great site, but doesn't seem to address the problem.

Have you tried Kino? It's a KDE app, but it works in GNOME and I"ve
successfully used it to pull raw video data from a Sony camcorder via
USB. It's slower than the firewire connection on my laptop, but it
still works pretty well.

Just back in town after a week out of state w/ no net connection (and
little cell coverage). I am relaxed but busy, and will try some of this
later this week. I would like the importing software to break the
various recorded sessions into separate files, all else is easy.

Kino, when importing from the camera over firewire, does exactly that when it
detects a scene change.


It's the "when importing from firewire" that bothers me, I would hope
that happens with USB as well, since the camera doesn't do firewire.



I'll let you know.




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Bill,
Last year my daughter bought me a Sony Handicam DCR-SR42 for Christmas.
It has a 30GB hard drive in it, and a USB connection. My laptop
recognized it right away and mounted it as a USB hard drive device. I
can access the the stored videos (MPGs) (in a simial method to accessing
my SONY still camera's JPGs) and access them directly.

I even learned how to burn the MPGs to a DVD with a script.
Does your videocam not have any local storage on it? For me, the trick
was in knowing where to look for the videos after Linux mounted the
device....

/media/disk/mp_root/101pnv01/
holds all of the .mpg files and
/media/disk/dcim/101msdcf/
holds all of my .jpg files....

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Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

Bill,
Last year my daughter bought me a Sony Handicam DCR-SR42 for
Christmas. It has a 30GB hard drive in it, and a USB connection. My
laptop recognized it right away and mounted it as a USB hard drive
device. I can access the the stored videos (MPGs) (in a simial method
to accessing my SONY still camera's JPGs) and access them directly.

I even learned how to burn the MPGs to a DVD with a script.
Does your videocam not have any local storage on it? For me, the
trick was in knowing where to look for the videos after Linux mounted
the device....

/media/disk/mp_root/101pnv01/
holds all of the .mpg files and
/media/disk/dcim/101msdcf/
holds all of my .jpg files....



Yes, the "local storage" is a tape drive. And given that the camera has
only a dozen hours of use in five years, I have a hard time justifying
an upgrade. It's totally adequate for the intended use as an easy to use
movie camera for a non-camera person. I'd like to get data out pre
split, I can split it if absolutely necessary. :-(


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