Sfotware (app) for camcorder interface with xubuntu 16.04

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:03:21 -0700 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> I have an HP 8740w notebook to which I would like to connect a
> camcorder.  However, I can neither find any such app on the machine,

Is the camcorder connection FireWire?  If so, Kino should be able to connect 
to it and read a (raw) DV stream.  I presume you want to download (upload?) 
video from the camcorder in order to edit it and produce a movie (eg a mp4 
file or a DVD or something like that).

And do a search for "video4linux".  I think that will get the info you are 
looking for.

> nor does google turn up anything remotely connected to a camcorder.
> There are lots of webcam apps and screen capture apps, none of which
> are what I want.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> MR
> 

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