Keith O'Connell wrote:
Hi,
I am thinking of buying my daughter a video camera, and I am looking for a little advice. Is there within Debian like tools for getting MPEG files off a camera,
gphoto, gphoto2, maybe mount the device directly, maybe other tools Depends on the camera.
gqview, konqueror, pornview (unfortunate name, although a good program), othersonto a linuc box and software to view them
, or better still edit trhem?
gimp, others
The camera (a cheap one from Amaxon) appears to use MPEG-4,
and I am sure I heard that this was to be a closed format with
royalties charged for it's use. Is this then not a good way to
go?
I'm not sure, but I'd be skittish of it.
I've just read what I've typed and it is quite obvious that I don't even know the right questions to ask!
No doubt others have trod this path. Is there an appropriate
site I should go to and read? I have googled but only seem to
get references to MPEG-[1-3], or sites offering to sell
cameras?
I have a Canon A-40 that works quite well. It's a few years old now. I don't have gphoto or gphoto2 installed on this box, so I can't verify this, but I believe the man pages for those apps list most of the cameras they support. Try googling for "linux hardware compatibility digital camera".
-- Kent
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