[TriLUG] Reading camcorder via USB

[T. Bryan]

Okay, so I still haven't bought a firewire card.  I'm sure that will happen 
soon.

But in the meantime, I have a Panasonic PV-GS 150 camcorder.  It includes a 
USB interface, so I hooked it up to my Debian box to see what would happen.  
Here's what I see in /var/log/messages/.

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Vendor: Matshita  Model: DVC               Rev: 1.00
Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda

Um...okay.  Now what?  Any ideas?

I've never tried to pull video off of this camcorder before.  I've been 
content to hook it up directly to a TV and play back from tape, but now I 
have several tapes that I'd like to convert to DVDs or something.  I just 
wanted to see whether I could get away without having to spring for a 
firewire card at the moment.

Thanks,
---Tom