Can't Capture with FireWire or USB-HELP!

[Hand2ThePlow]

*IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!! *

I went to WalMart yesterday and bought a Stratitec brand firewire card
for $24.00 with the *Texas Instrument chipset * (clear plastic
packaging, easy to varify the chip). Went home, removed the card with
the *VIA chipset* , installed the new card, ran setup and BAM! I had
capture.

If you own a JVC miniDV and can't capture but can control the camera
from the on screen buttons, check the device manager to see if your
card is listed as "VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controller".
If it is, forget all the recommendations to roll back your drivers to
SP1, the MicroSoft patch, changing the SIDspeed to 3, using the TI
driver with a VIA card and all the other guaranteed fixes, I tried them
all and none of them worked. Get a firewire card with a *Texas
Instrument chipset * and be done with it. Shelling out $24 for another
new card was less painful then the headache of trying to figure out how
to make the VIA card work.

 

[motmeister]

Absolutely right Hand2ThePlow!

Many of the computers that have the Mediacenter ports on the front of
the computer do not use a TI-compatible firewire. I may not have had
the same configuration (software/hardware), but I had the same
symptoms. I bought and installed a TI-compatible firewire card and used

that port and the problems went away.


I know it makes some people unhappy that they can't make something work

"out of the box", but from what I've seen in my search for a solution
to this problem is that the problem lies in the fact that there are
compatibility problems between the JVC product and non-TI compatible
firewire chips.


I bought the JVC GR-D72 camera last year but couldn't get satisfactory
results because my computer was too slow for the capture. For various
reasons I had to buy an inexpensive computer to replace a file server.
I chose the Compaq Presario (VERY low end). Once my computers were all
stabilized, I thought I'd try video capture again (using Ulead Video
Studio). I plugged into the firewire port on the front of the Compaq
and had your symptoms. I'd already read much of what's been written
about the problem, so I transferred a TI-compatible firewire card to
the new computer and used that port for the transfer and I've been very

pleased ever since.