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Hi!
I bought an Olympus VN-2100PC. That's a voice recorder with 64MB flash memory with the ability to connect to PC by USB. i bought it in hope, that it works on linux as an usb mass storage. well, that's not the case.
There is a disc with some windows software called "Digital Wave Player". The installation with wine doesn't work. Doesn't matter cause just the software wouldn't make arch to recognize the device.
So far: Is there anybody who got a device like this workin on arch or another gnu/linux distribution (or on a mac)?
maybe some of you find this information useful and can help:
dmesg shows this if i connect the device:
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choiceaddress 6 cause i plugged/unplugged it now a couple of times to watch differences in /dev.
in /proc/bus/usb/devices it shows up too:
T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 6 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=07b4 ProdID=020d Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
S: Product=DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=50msin /dev it shows up as there exist this files:
/dev/usbdev2.6_ep00
/dev/usbdev2.6_ep02
/dev/usbdev2.6_ep81
/dev/usbdev2.6_ep83
my minds about it may help too:
The voice recorder uses Digital Wave format. Whatever that means. I just found it out by googling.
I think the device doesn't really store files on it's memory. Looks like the Digital Wave Player connects to it, plays the recorded audio (sort of virtual files) with the USB-connection as "output", records it and saves it to disc.
So, is there something like a Digital Wave Player (like the one on the disc mentioned above) for linux?
Thanks, Cheers!
Last edited by clownfish (2007-05-03 11:46:04)
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Digging up an ancient question, but I had the same trouble. Eventually, I found odvr, a handy tool that seems to work with many older Olympus models:
https://code.google.com/p/odvr/
Either build or run the static x86 library provided in the source. One issue, though: I couldn't get the udev rules right, so I'm using it with sudo for now ("sudo odvr -h"). But it does the job very well.
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odvr is in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/odvr/
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This is very embarrassing -- I really don't know why I didn't check. Sorry.
EDIT: If odvr fails with HQ, SP or LP quality files, either try this patch or this utility in place of sandec. I successfully used the latter.
Last edited by marttt (2013-08-12 17:00:41)
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