on 5-22-2009 7:22 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:16 PM, MHR <mhullrich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote: >> I'm looking for any intelligent commentary on this - it may be a >> little off topic, but I'm wondering if anyone knows about this. �This >> isn't short, so bear with me. >> >> Yesterday, I tried to download a video off of one of my digital still >> cameras that also takes videos (Canon Powershot SX10 iS) on my CentOS >> x86_64 5.3 system. �When I plugged the camera into a USB port and >> turned it on, it showed no images available, AND no device showed up > <snip> > Our digital still camera is a very low end Canon PowerShot A460. Your > camera may employ different technology, so YMMV. A few minutes ago, I > made 3 test videos, each a few seconds in length. I am using CentOS > 5.3 (32 bit, fully updated) and the GNOME Desktop. After I connected > the camera to a USB port and I turned on the camera, it was detected, > immediately, by the same Ap that imports still photos from the camera. > I imported the 3 .avi files and was able to play each of them, > perfectly, using the Totem Movie Player. Your camera is producing > video files with a different file extension? Our Samsung DVD Camcorder > produces .vob files and in order to upload them to YouTube, I had to > rename them to .jpg or .jpeg or something. But if you cannot download > the video files from your digital still camera to your PC, you do not > have the opportunity to convert them to another file format or rename > them to a different file extension. GL Renaming a file does not change its makeup. Just because you rename a .vob file to .jpg, doesn't make it a jpeg. It just makes it a mis-named vob file. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090522/f3d97d5a/attachment-0004.sig>