[lug] USB video capture.

Lori Reed lorireed at lightning-rose.com
Tue Jul 21 23:17:25 MDT 2009


David L. Anselmi wrote:

> Anyone know offhand how to copy video from a camcorder (tape) to disk 
> over USB?

I suspect your best bet will be ffmpeg. It's the command line program 
that seems to be used by most Linux gui video editors.

Here's a how-to for web cams, it may also apply to video cameras.

http://www.infohit.net/blog/post/capturing-webcam-video-with-linux.html

Lori




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