Downloading Movies From Cameras In Fedora 7 (Was: Canon Elura 100 Camcorder and FC5)

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Wed Sep 5 05:02:50 UTC 2007


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=OSCompatibilityArchiveAct&fcategoryid=2115&keycode=macdr
>
> 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





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