Capturing USB streaming from a Sony Digital Video Camera.
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Thanks Brian for your suggestion. I've read that post but it doesn't solve the problem with an usb connection. It recommends firewire. What I need is to be able to capture from USB.
If you plugin your camera in a USB slot and run "lsusb" can you tell us the USB ID of your camera? Some cameras are supported by the linux-uvc driver (not part of Slackware but I have a package).
With the USBID for your camera it is easier searching. Also, you can just be adventurous and install my linux-uvc package and then plug in the camera.
That "DV" port is likely to be the FireWire port. If your computer has a firewire interface then it would be easy to get your camera stream onto the computer using programs like VLC (package for VLC here: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/vlc/)
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