is there a driver to enable the sony machines to send video to Netmeeting,
or Messanger? I can easily play my camcorder on Gigapocket software, and I
can also play the TV tuner on there, but Netmeeting and Messanger do not
recognize the camera... Does anyone know if Sony has a driver, or if
Microsoft has a patch to help this work??

thanks in avaance,
BR

Thank you Jonathan,
I got it to work, I was able to hook the camera up to the computer using an
Ilink connection, rather than using RCA cables. No I could not hook up to
it using the audio/video wizzard, there is no driver that will work with my
sony vaio computer... It was not a problem with my camcorder, I could
plug any camera into the sony, it should have been independant of camera
selection. I guess my first note was not as clear as it should have been,
I am sorry for the confusion.

I'd rather have gotten it to work without the Ilink connection, I don't like
having to disconnect my external hard drive to connect the camera to the
computer. If you have any ideas on how get it working without Ilink
connection I'd apprecite any info.

take care,
BR



"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Greetings Bill,
>
> If you go into Messenger, choose the Tools menu, then Audio Tuning Wizard
(or Audio/Video
> Tuning Wizard depending on version), is it not listed as a video input
during the wizard?
>
> If not, can you be more specific to which "sony camera" you're referring
to (model #s, etc.)?
> ____________________________________________
> Jonathan Kay
> Windows MVP, Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>
>
> "Bil Reese" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6-6dnVzSL9MylviiU-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> > is there a driver to enable the sony machines to send video to
Netmeeting,
> > or Messanger? I can easily play my camcorder on Gigapocket software,
and I
> > can also play the TV tuner on there, but Netmeeting and Messanger do not
> > recognize the camera... Does anyone know if Sony has a driver, or if
> > Microsoft has a patch to help this work??
> >
> > thanks in avaance,
> > BR
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Hi Bill,

Well, it's solely dependant on whatever drivers Sony has included -- for example with PCs
with [modern] ATI video cards, you can use RCA or S-Video inputs from the video card within
Messenger. If there isn't anything application in the Tuning Wizard for this, I doubt
there's much you can do (except complain to Sony).

I know this probably isn't a solution you're interested in, but you could use a firewire
(i.Link hub) to connect more then one i.Link device at one time:
ex. http://www.orangemicro.com/hub.html
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"Bil Reese" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:IfWcnWctB5wNPfiiU-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thank you Jonathan,
> I got it to work, I was able to hook the camera up to the computer using an
> Ilink connection, rather than using RCA cables. No I could not hook up to
> it using the audio/video wizzard, there is no driver that will work with my
> sony vaio computer... It was not a problem with my camcorder, I could
> plug any camera into the sony, it should have been independant of camera
> selection. I guess my first note was not as clear as it should have been,
> I am sorry for the confusion.
>
> I'd rather have gotten it to work without the Ilink connection, I don't like
> having to disconnect my external hard drive to connect the camera to the
> computer. If you have any ideas on how get it working without Ilink
> connection I'd apprecite any info.
>
> take care,
> BR
>
>
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Greetings Bill,
> >
> > If you go into Messenger, choose the Tools menu, then Audio Tuning Wizard
> (or Audio/Video
> > Tuning Wizard depending on version), is it not listed as a video input
> during the wizard?
> >
> > If not, can you be more specific to which "sony camera" you're referring
> to (model #s, etc.)?
> > ____________________________________________
> > Jonathan Kay
> > Windows MVP, Messenger
> > Associate Expert
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> > Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> >
> >
> > "Bil Reese" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:6-6dnVzSL9MylviiU-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > >
> > > is there a driver to enable the sony machines to send video to
> Netmeeting,
> > > or Messanger? I can easily play my camcorder on Gigapocket software,
> and I
> > > can also play the TV tuner on there, but Netmeeting and Messanger do not
> > > recognize the camera... Does anyone know if Sony has a driver, or if
> > > Microsoft has a patch to help this work??
> > >
> > > thanks in avaance,
> > > BR
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>