Thanks Jim, I'll certainly check that out, but I've just (5 minutes ago) tried a neighbours JVC (the first camera was a Sony), with the same result.
This port has been used in the past to do this - which is why I'm puzzled... Cheers ____________________________________ Neil Atwood - Sydney, Australia http://westserve.org - blog, Christian and tech stuff. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McQueeney > Sent: Monday, 1 August 2005 7:53 AM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] Firewire issues > > Neil Atwood - Admin, Westserve.org wrote: > > G'day list, > > > > I have a Gigabyte 8KNXP motherboard with a TI firewire controller built in. > > > > I use it fairly often to hook up an external HDD with no problems. > > > > But my son bought his video camera over on the weekend and wanted to dump a > couple of DV tapes to the hard drive. > > No problem, I thought, hooked up the camera with a firewire 4pin > 6pin > > cable. > > Loaded up 'Power Director' video editing, it saw the camera and we could > > control the > camera, as expected. > > But when we tried to capture the contents of the tape as a DV-AVI, the > > software > immediately reported an 'error' (no details, just 'an error has occurred' ) > and the t/f is > dropped. > > Same thing in Moviemaker. > > > > Device manager shows no problems, and as the driver used is the standard XP > driver, I'm not where else to look to track the problem down. > > > > Any thought? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > ____________________________________________ > > Neil Atwood > > > > Aloha Neil, > > This may be a camera 'problem.' My Sony HandiCam allows moving video from my > PC to the Hi8 tape through the 4-pin firewire port - but not vice versa. > > To transfer video from the HandiCam to my PC, I have to use the 'video out' > jack and a 'special' three wire cable. > > Anyway, check the camera manual... > > Have a wonderful day! > > Aloha, a hui hou... > > > -- > * Jim McQueeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** > *** Jim McQueeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *** > ******PGP/GPG ** DH: 0x22768E06 ****** > ********Keys *** DH: 0x41B6F689 ******
