How to get video off of my camera?

[Stephen]

actually an idea comes to me, look into VLC (video lan client) it has
a crapton of codecs built in/brought in with it.

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had this problem last year using ubuntu (don't remember the version or
> what programs I tried.  The .mov was on my Kodak Z812.  I did not try super
> hard so there is probably a better solution, but what I did was to use
> MovieMaker in Vista which was able to import the .mov file.  I then did some
> simple edits and exported the result as another format.  I was able to use
> THAT as input on the Linux system.
>
> The .mov type is a container type like .avi and others.  You probably do not
> have the codec (or something) required to process the contents.  In ubuntu,
> you could install ubuntu-restricted-extras to get many of them.  I have
> found Handbrake useful to trasform some video types into another and even
> fix some problems (I did not know of it when I had the .mov).
>
> Lastly, you could try just getting the file off the camera and onto your
> hard drive without trying to treat it as a video.  It will then be easier to
> experiment on.  IOW try to use a copy command from a terminal or a file
> browser like Nautilus to simply copy or move the file to somewhere in youor
> home directory tree.
>
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think all of this is pointing to the way the camera is connecting to
>> your system, and how the hardware is connected.
>>
>> i would take a look there and make sure the Os is really seeing the
>> media correctly, then i think any app you use will be good to go.
>>
>> i know the output of lspci and... err i forget the other.. should have
>> some clues.
>>
>> bot to keep it from being horrible boot the system. wait a min then
>> plug in and then do lspci so it will mostly be at the bottom of the
>> output.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:47 PM,  <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>> > I can't figure out how to copy videos off of my Kodak M863 Digital
>> > camera
>> > onto my Linux system.
>> >
>> > I was able to use gphoto2 to copy still photos onto my older Mandriva
>> > Linux system, but neither gphoto nor gphoto2 work on my newer Linux
>> > system.
>> >
>> > Eventually, I found that I could get the photos off using digikam, but
>> > while a video (.MOV) appears in the digikam list of captured images,
>> > when
>> > I try to copy it off, an error results: "Failed to load image ..."
>> >
>> > Screen cap of the problem: http://www.upquick.com/linux/digikam.jpg
>> >
>> > Under multimedia applications on my system, there are 15 apps listed
>> > under
>> > graphics and 14 apps listed under video, and while I have used several
>> > of
>> > the graphics apps, I have not yet used any of the video apps.
>> >
>> > Screen cap of apps available:
>> > http://www.upquick.com/linux/graphic.video.jpg
>> >
>> > Hope some of my plug friends can advise me how to get my videos copied
>> > off
>> > my camera onto my Linux box, and which video apps might work best.
>> >
>> > Recently someone on the list recommended "Open Movie Editor" as perhaps
>> > the best video editor, but I have not been able to get the video on my
>> > camera imported into it.
>> >
>> > Help!
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
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>>
>> Stephen
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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen