Sony Digital Camcorder connected via USB possible?

[Ryan Nowakowski]

Hey,

I'm trying to connect my new Sony DCR-TRV 250 Digital 8 Camcorder to my
Debian Sid workstation via USB. I can't find anything on Google or the
Debian mailing lists about connecting camcorders via USB. Has anyone
done this before?

Thanks,

Ryan

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[Jamin W. Collins]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 09:18:39PM -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote:

> I'm trying to connect my new Sony DCR-TRV 250 Digital 8 Camcorder to
> my Debian Sid workstation via USB. I can't find anything on Google or
> the Debian mailing lists about connecting camcorders via USB. Has
> anyone done this before?

In general, yes. With that particular model, no. All I needed to do
was treat the camera like any other USB storage device, and make sure it
was on.

--
Jamin W. Collins

Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question. - Neo


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[Mark C]

Once upon a time Jamin W. Collins was quoted as saying:

> In general, yes. With that particular model, no. All I needed to do
> was treat the camera like any other USB storage device, and make sure it
> was on.

Whilst in general that is true, I had a problem a while back tring to get
my digital camera (epsilon) connected to my box, it uses usb for the
connection, it plugs in fine and I get console msgs regarding a scsi
driver has been loaded,
but I'm unable to access it at all under /dev/sda1.

After several emails to one of the usb maintainers and also on kernel.org,
it seems that whilst the device is saying that it is reported as a mass
staorage device, its actually emulating it (by using windows drivers),
hence unable to connect to any partition at all on the device.

This apparently is the case for a lot of cheapish usb devices, In the end
I bought a Zion smart card reader and used that, plug in and mount as
vfat:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /usb-media

So be prepared for that scenario, whilst it may display as a mass staorage
device, you may not be able to connect to it.


But there are always workarounds, as in my case the Zion Smart card reader
(£15).

Mark

--
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism,
to steal ideas from many is research.



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