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    Video camera as mass storage device

    Hi,

    I'm new to Linux and I've recently installed SuSE 8.0, I'm trying to get my video camera to work with it. The camera is a Logitech Pocket Video 550, it records onto solid state internal memory and additional flash cards. It works as a mass storage device and connects via USB.

    When I connect the camera the internal & additional memory show up as /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 but my computer shows that it contains no files, even though video clips are stored.

    I know that the video clips are stored in ASF format, if that has any relevance. Is there something I can do to get the video clips off of my camera and onto my computer.

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    Try using the -t option when mounting it. Normally this is done automatically, ie.
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    mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash
    Maybe yours is using something other than the default file system type (don't know what that is for flash drives, vfat?) It may be some proprietary type though that isn't mountable. It doesn't have a secure digital card for memory does it?
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    Have you tried or gphoto2 or
    gtkam, and I think KDE has Kamera which are front ends for libgphoto2.
    Here's
    a good rundown on Linux support for various cameras.
    If it a fairly new camera, USB mass storage should support it (if enabled in the kernel- not sure of Suse 8.0) and it probably is vfat if it uses a flash storage card.
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    Originally posted by elderdays
    Try using the -t option when mounting it. Normally this is done automatically, ie.
    Code:
    mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash
    Maybe yours is using something other than the default file system type (don't know what that is for flash drives, vfat?) It may be some proprietary type though that isn't mountable. It doesn't have a secure digital card for memory does it?
    Wouldn't that be:

    mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash

    ???

    No wait, I get what you were saying. In any case, that's what you can try typing to explicitly set the file system.

    I think the standard format for memory like that is FAT32, so unless it is some sort of proprietary thing (in which case it wouldn't work as a mass storage device however) it should work.

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    Re: Video camera as mass storage device

    Originally posted by Blighty-D

    When I connect the camera the internal & additional memory show up as /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 but my computer shows that it contains no files, even though video clips are stored.
    Have a look in /etc/fstab

    cat /etc/fstab

    to see if you have a entry for /dev/sda1. If you do, take a note of the mountpoint defined for /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab and do a directory listing.

    i.e. If the mountpoint is /mnt/flash, then do the following

    cd /mnt/flash

    ls -al

    If not files, BUT you see another directory, change to that directory

    cd <directory>

    and again

    ls -al

    to see if there are any files.

    That is what I had to do for my digital camera.
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    Thanks for the help people, I have now mounted the camera properly and can access the files (although only when logged in as root) now I just have to find something that can convert ASF files to something like AVI.

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    From the mplayer docs:
    2.1.1.3. ASF/WMV files

    ASF (Active Streaming Format) comes from Microsoft. They developed two variants of ASF, v1.0 and v2.0. v1.0 is used by their media tools (Windows Media Player and Windows Media Encoder) and is very secret. v2.0 is published and patented . Of course they differ, there is no compatibility at all (it is just another legal game). MPlayer supports only v1.0, as nobody has ever seen v2.0 files . Note that ASF files nowadays come with the extension .WMA or .WMV.
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