Re: [Libusb-win32-devel] =?iso-8859-15?q?How_to_spy_for_mouse_data_?= =?iso-8859-15?q?=3F_=28noob_developer=29?=

[Linus W. <tr...@df...>]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Stephan Meyer wrote:

> What you're trying to do won't work, at least not with libusb.
> libusb is not a USB filter or USB monitor. It's not possible to extract
> data packets from a mouse's or any other device's data stream.

If what is sought after here is a USB sniffer/spy for reverse engineering 
I recommend using USB Snoopy. It does the trick on just about any device 
by filtering the main driver.

http://www.wingmanteam.com/usbsnoopy/

The HW analyzers from Ellisys, CATC etc are good too, but costly.

Linus