On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 01:02 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 23:28 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>
>> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>>
>>> I gave my wife a Canon Elura 100 camcorder for Christmas. I just
>>> watched her download her very first movie to Windows XP. Can I do the
>>> same in Fedora Core 5? If I just plugged in the camcorder to my
>>> onboard 1394 port, will an application come up recognizing the
>>> camcorder and offering to download the movie from the DV tape?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>> Can anyone offer me updated advice for doing the above under Fedora 7? I
>> connected my Elura 100 camcorder to my Fedora 7 system over a 1394
>> cable, and nothing happened. Can Totem do this by itself? Or do I still
>> need additional software? Which repos should I get the software from?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>
> It looks like your camera is a canon and it supports PTP. So you
> _should_ be able to use 'gphoto2' to get the movies out of your
> camcorder:
>
>
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=OSCompatibilityArchiveAc...
>
> Something like 'gphoto2 -L' should work with your camera. This should
> give you a list of what's on your camera. 'gphoto2 -P' should pull all
> the files on your camcorder onto your computer.
>
> According to gphoto2 --list-cameras, your model 100 isn't supported yet,
> however you may be able to 'trick' it into working with some of the
> 'expert options':
> --port=FILENAME Specify port device
> --speed=SPEED Specify serial transfer speed
> --camera=MODEL Specify camera model
> --usbid=USBIDs (expert only) Override USB IDs
>
>
> If it doesn't work out of the box for you with gphoto2, but does work
> with some of the expert options, contact me off list and we can get it
> directly integrated into gphoto2.
>
> Sean
>
>
>
Hi Sean,
Thanks for the tips. According to my owner's manual for the Elura 100,
PTP works only for still images (JPEG only). I have a whole movie. Is
there a way to pull the movie off the tape media in the Elura?
Thanks
Bob
Hmmm...PTP supports movies, but oh well.
When you plugin the camcorder, nothing 'pops' up on the Desktop? That's
odd.
Can you plugin your camcorder, fire off a terminal and run dmesg?
Copy/paste that terminal output and fire an email back to the list.
Maybe some other folks will see something obvious.
Sean