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Re:Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available by logic on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @04:56PM (#1891935)
Wireshark has had support for usbmon for a few releases now too, which gives you a considerably more useful GUI for working with USB streams.

Sadly, there aren't many (any?) protocol dissectors yet, so comms with common chips like FTDI devices don't automatically translate into something human-readable like, say, HTTP conversations.

Re:Kinect reverse-engineered; open driver available by daeken on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @08:58PM (#1892566)
Really? That's sort of baffling. FTDI's USB chips are damn easy to work with, I'd expect dissectors for them to be out there already. I'll have to remedy that.