Eventually I figured out that this would require me to compile source code, which I did not know how to do. Among the various downloads ( archive) listed at the Google Code site, I chose the most recent: odvr-0.1.5.tar.gz (September 27, 2009) ( archive). The first step was to download the driver from one of those locations. The Linux solution, for this device (and apparently for other Olympus VN DVRs), seemed to be based on the odvr project, originally archived at Google Code ( archive) but cloned to GitHub. On the software side, I needed to run the Olympus Digital Wave Player software, or something like it, to work with the data coming in from the DVR. On the hardware side, I had to get the Linux computer to recognize the device. There were two parts to this task: hardware and software. This approach was also fairly simple, at least for those who were willing and able to get to the point of opening a session of Terminal in Linux, though there was one potential complication discussed below. wav files that I got when uploading from the DVR to Windows. Another was that the Linux approach brought the recordings over from the DVR to the PC in high quality, not in the reduced-quality. So far, I had found that this approach had some advantages.

Sometimes, at least, I could overcome that by opening DWP and clicking its buttons to upload manually.Īn alternative was to upload from the DVR to Linux. At this writing, I found that sometimes Windows 10 would recognize the DVR, but for some reason the DWP software did not run automatically. As with Windows 7 and earlier versions, the situation (at least at the start) was that the operating system (OS) did not reliably recognize the DVR and upload from it. (I did not try Windows 8.) Another post provides the Windows registry edits by which I redirected uploads, from DVR to PC, from the default folder on drive C to another folder on another drive. I had found working solutions up through Windows 7. But more on that in a moment.Īs described in a previous post, I had used various techniques to get versions of Windows to upload data from a VN-960PC, using the Olympus Digital Wave Player (DWP) software. One unexpected discovery: audio quality was much higher in Linux. This post discusses some of my learning about connecting the Olympus VN-960PC digital voice recorder (DVR) to Windows and Linux.

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