Digital Video Camera Not Detected

R

Revyn

The good news is, I am not alone with this problem. I have a sony DCR-
TRV 330 E, according sony site it should be compatible with Vista via 1394,
but clearly it is not. I will definetly not by a new Sony camera again.

Anyone ever solved the issue?
 
M

MikeyUK

Hi all,

I am new to this forum, have a problem similar to most of you with detection
of Camera. Have recently bought a HP550 Laptop, running XP Professional with
all updates loaded and running.
My Firewire 1394a card is a plug in to the Laptop Express Card slot.
The card has 2 ports, both 6 pin Firewire female.
Have cable 6 pin to 4 pin Firewire.
When the card was first plugged in, system found it o.k. camera was
connected by (4 pin DV cable) and system worked perfectly with MS 'Movie
Maker' . I shut down and returned a few hours later, powered up Laptop but no
sign of Firewire card.
My camera is a JVC Digital model GR-DVX9E, and was/is running on
mains/adaptor.
Have spent 'days' of research trying to fix this 'non detection' problem,
has anyone found a solution please ?

Mike
 
J

John Inzer

MikeyUK said:
Hi all,

I am new to this forum, have a problem similar to most of you with
detection of Camera. Have recently bought a HP550 Laptop, running XP
Professional with all updates loaded and running.
My Firewire 1394a card is a plug in to the Laptop Express Card slot.
The card has 2 ports, both 6 pin Firewire female.
Have cable 6 pin to 4 pin Firewire.
When the card was first plugged in, system found it o.k. camera was
connected by (4 pin DV cable) and system worked perfectly with MS
'Movie Maker' . I shut down and returned a few hours later, powered
up Laptop but no sign of Firewire card.
My camera is a JVC Digital model GR-DVX9E, and was/is running on
mains/adaptor.
Have spent 'days' of research trying to fix this 'non detection'
problem, has anyone found a solution please ?

Mike
===================================
Maybe the FireWire card has hardware issues...
have you checked it out in Device Manager?

You can launch Device Manager by going to...
Start/Run and type or copy/paste
devmgmt.msc
Then press enter.

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
M

MikeyUK

John,

thanks for your response, already followed your suggestion .... there is no
sign of the card in device manager. However the PCI standard PCI-to-PCI
Bridge is showing a 'yellow' exclamation mark.

Someone (earlier) suggested uninstalling this item and let XP re-install at
next start up, this I did but no change in status. In fact my Laptop has not
detected the 1394 card since the one and only first attempt.

Mike
 
J

John Inzer

MikeyUK said:
John,

thanks for your response, already followed your suggestion .... there
is no sign of the card in device manager. However the PCI standard
PCI-to-PCI Bridge is showing a 'yellow' exclamation mark.

Someone (earlier) suggested uninstalling this item and let XP
re-install at next start up, this I did but no change in status. In
fact my Laptop has not detected the 1394 card since the one and only
first attempt.

Mike
=============================================
Sounds like replacing the FireWire card might be worth a try.

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
M

MikeyUK

John,

this problem is making me dizzy ...
Last evening I had another try to let XP 'recognise' the Firewire card.

Started up Laptop then plugged in card and instantly recognised !!!
Removed card, and then re-inserted, again o.k. No error messages in device
manager. Connected up DV camera to card and re-inserted to Laptop, card
recognised.
Tried WMMaker, error message 'video capture device was not detected'

At least I appear to have made a step forward, but still problem not fixed

Mike
 
J

John Inzer

MikeyUK said:
John,

this problem is making me dizzy ...
Last evening I had another try to let XP 'recognise' the Firewire
card.

Started up Laptop then plugged in card and instantly recognised !!!
Removed card, and then re-inserted, again o.k. No error messages in
device manager. Connected up DV camera to card and re-inserted to
Laptop, card recognised.
Tried WMMaker, error message 'video capture device was not detected'

At least I appear to have made a step forward, but still problem not
fixed

Mike
====================================================
Maybe you had a bad connection before.

I know it's doubtful...but maybe the following article would be worth a
look:

Download video from your camera to your computer
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/DLmovies.mspx

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 

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