I need software to capture video from my handycam. It uses USB for data transfer. What software do I need?
By this you mean record direct to HD and not to camera storage first?
welcome to the forum ba_tux; you have put this post in the hardware section; I think you are asking about software to manage video footage that you have taken; that would usually go in the multimedia sub-forum, that is an offshoot of the Applications forum;
so the multimedia enthusiasts may not spot your thread in the hardware section;
if I list a couple of recent threads where I think folks have asked similar questions; and that have talked about editing camcorder footage:
How to get started with SUSE multimedia? - openSUSE Forums
Video editing software?? - openSUSE Forums
Making movies… how? - openSUSE Forums
and this thread that oldcpu recommends:
I haven’t tried pulling DV footage out of a camera through USB; we have just firewire so far; linux very happily does that;
let us know if the above is helpful to you;
Google is often your friend; so something mentioning what you are interested in; in Google; may yield you useful things: linux camcorder USB capture video … whatever …
without a lot of hassle, try VLC and see if it does what you wish
I was under the impression that VLC played footage; but I didn’t know it could extract dv from a camera; happy to be corrected;
I guess if we can usefully establish how you get dv footage out of a handycam, if it only has a USB connection;
this post Linux Digital Video
says that dvgrab will work with some cameras;
however this manual page for dvgrab
seems to only talk about firewire;
this article seems to say the same
similarly, kino seems for firewire