On Saturday 22 September 2007, Halim Issa wrote: > Hello, and thanks for a great product! > > The various howto's and documentation pieces of kino are a little confusing > to me when it comes to supported transport standards (firewire and/or USB). > > On one hand they state that one _must_ have ieee1394 (firewire) to be able > to download the video from the camera to the Linux-PC, but on the other > hand the documentation also seems to mention that USB 2.0 is supported.
The capture document says "Neither does it support Video4Linux or USB for a capture interface." Neither means it does not. The only other reference to USB is in regards to Jog/Shuttle input controllers. > Could someone kindly clarify which one is correct, and if firewire is the > only currently supported connection, is there any plans to support USB in > the future? Kino only supports FireWire. dvgrab 3.0 now supports DV over USB, but not many DV cameras that have a USB port actually use the standard for transferring DV over it--typically only still photos. You can check to see if your camera supports USB Video Class with DV payload, and then try to use linux-uvc driver and dvgrab 3.0. There are no plans for Kino to support USB Video Class; however, kdenlive ought to eventually support it since it uses dvgrab.
