Re: [PLUG] Digital Video Transfer from Legacy "Digital" Camcorder

Likely it wouldn't be mounted but instead treated as a V4L2 USB device, which either VLC or ffmpeg (or a slew of others) could capture.

Something like this process:

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=110646

And actually, googling for:

trv280 linux vlc

Yields this as a result:

https://tdb0.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/digitizing-video8-and-hi8-recordings/

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 19:49 Douglas Lentz via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

Desktop: Ubuntu 20.04
The legacy camcorder: A Sony TRV280 from about 2009. It's labeled
"Digital" and has a USB port labeled "DV". The tape format is
something called Hi8.

The question: How to transfer the Hi8 tapes to MP4 or something like that?
Alternate question: Is it just easier and cheaper to use a service?
We're talking about 12 tapes total.

If the answer to the second question is NO, how would I go about
mounting this thing? If I need an intermediate device between the
camcorder and the computer, any recommendations?

Thanks in advance. Any advice at all is most welcome.

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