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How to Transfer video files from Sony Handycam to Computer running on Linux - no installation of playmemories or other software needed.

Many thanks to the person who helped by posting an answer to this question on a forum that i have lost now. Will post it down below once i find it.

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00:02hello there everybody good evening it's boy Nana channel here now I've been looking for a way to
00:13transfer my files from this Sony camcorder transfer the files from here on to my Linux
00:23computer so if you try and look for software for you to be able to do that it only supports
00:37oh my
00:40god there's just too many stuff here the problem with this is that it only supports Windows or
00:55iMac did I say that right iMac so I tried to search for this you know for any supports Linux
01:07and there you are are you Sony and I can start by Sony which is not available for Linux
01:18I also tried to look on YouTube if there's a way to do that getaway
01:28I say transfer video files from Sony camcorder to your PC Linux
01:45and it's just Windows there I don't know I haven't checked that one but you can try and check it
01:51yourself all of this thing to support just Windows importing to a Mac what about this one here
02:08let's go straight to it oh no that's not it no that doesn't apply it's a different capture software
02:14right so that's the problem now I'm going to attach my this onto the computer through the USB so that's
02:26that there
02:27and when you do that okay
02:36there let me see if you can see that yep there it is PM home
02:42now open the files
02:49there is nothing there absolutely nothing there's no videos there's another one 63 gigabytes and none nada
03:04absolutely zero
03:08so so I'm going to follow that guy's instructions
03:14okay I wonder if you can see this
03:19okay so let's see
03:25right if you could see
03:27let's see so there it is um let's try that menu go to settings
03:41go down to
03:46USB cable
03:48USB cable
03:49no no no no that's wrong
03:54USB connect
03:57connect setting right
03:59so it says there mass storage
04:02now you're gonna have to pick
04:04so let's choose this option
04:07and let's try it
04:18so there you are
04:21it says HDR
04:26CX405 let's open the files and there's all the videos
04:31it's it's actually a straightforward
04:34and no need for software to
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