Please help ... before I teach my laptop to fly!

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Ian Warren

Okay I got a camcorder for Xmas last year and have just bought a laptop so I
can try to edit some of my camcorder videos.

Specs are as follows:
Camera:
JVC GR-D20EK Mini-DV
Good as new
Oh and PAL

Laptop:
AMD Sempron 2800+
Win XP OEM SP2
Windows video editor or whatever its called (you know, the free thing with
winxp)
PCMCIA IEEE1394 from SAFECOM (I don't think it is TI chipset but can't find
anywhere that says one way or the other)
New 6-4 DV cable as required for camera-PCMCIA
All above brand new.

Problem as it stands:
Stuck IEEE1394 card in laptop no problem installed and said it was connected
and fine (runs NEC OHCI Driver not bog standard OHCI one but not TI either)
(also no irq conflicts and device manager show IEEE1394 working fine)
stuck in cable and linked to camcorder
turned camcorder on
nothing
absolutely bugger all

clicked capture told to connect a camcorder!

have tried connecting in all manner of orders
power first, power last, camera on then laptop, everything
still nothing

have tried the two patches from microsoft which are meant to fix the SP2
problems
again not a sausage

haven't done the PAL detected as NTSC fix as it still isn't even detected
yet! let alone detected wrongly :-[



Please please please can someone either tell me how to fix this or tell me
what cheap IEEE1394 card have the TI chipset so I can try that if nothing
else is going to work!

Thanks,
Ian (highly frustrated!)
 
Check out all of these solutions, but I'd plump for checking cable first.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/ProblemPages/CannotCapture.htm

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com


Cari (MS-MVP) said:
Camcorder powered by A/C and not it's battery?
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



Ian Warren said:
Okay I got a camcorder for Xmas last year and have just bought a laptop
so I
can try to edit some of my camcorder videos.

Specs are as follows:
Camera:
JVC GR-D20EK Mini-DV
Good as new
Oh and PAL

Laptop:
AMD Sempron 2800+
Win XP OEM SP2
Windows video editor or whatever its called (you know, the free thing
with
winxp)
PCMCIA IEEE1394 from SAFECOM (I don't think it is TI chipset but can't
find
anywhere that says one way or the other)
New 6-4 DV cable as required for camera-PCMCIA
All above brand new.

Problem as it stands:
Stuck IEEE1394 card in laptop no problem installed and said it was
connected
and fine (runs NEC OHCI Driver not bog standard OHCI one but not TI
either)
(also no irq conflicts and device manager show IEEE1394 working fine)
stuck in cable and linked to camcorder
turned camcorder on
nothing
absolutely bugger all

clicked capture told to connect a camcorder!

have tried connecting in all manner of orders
power first, power last, camera on then laptop, everything
still nothing

have tried the two patches from microsoft which are meant to fix the SP2
problems
again not a sausage

haven't done the PAL detected as NTSC fix as it still isn't even detected
yet! let alone detected wrongly :-[



Please please please can someone either tell me how to fix this or tell
me
what cheap IEEE1394 card have the TI chipset so I can try that if nothing
else is going to work!

Thanks,
Ian (highly frustrated!)
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Hi Cari,

Yeah I've tried both!


Cari (MS-MVP) said:
Camcorder powered by A/C and not it's battery?
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



Ian Warren said:
Okay I got a camcorder for Xmas last year and have just bought a laptop so
I
can try to edit some of my camcorder videos.

Specs are as follows:
Camera:
JVC GR-D20EK Mini-DV
Good as new
Oh and PAL

Laptop:
AMD Sempron 2800+
Win XP OEM SP2
Windows video editor or whatever its called (you know, the free thing with
winxp)
PCMCIA IEEE1394 from SAFECOM (I don't think it is TI chipset but can't
find
anywhere that says one way or the other)
New 6-4 DV cable as required for camera-PCMCIA
All above brand new.

Problem as it stands:
Stuck IEEE1394 card in laptop no problem installed and said it was
connected
and fine (runs NEC OHCI Driver not bog standard OHCI one but not TI
either)
(also no irq conflicts and device manager show IEEE1394 working fine)
stuck in cable and linked to camcorder
turned camcorder on
nothing
absolutely bugger all

clicked capture told to connect a camcorder!

have tried connecting in all manner of orders
power first, power last, camera on then laptop, everything
still nothing

have tried the two patches from microsoft which are meant to fix the SP2
problems
again not a sausage

haven't done the PAL detected as NTSC fix as it still isn't even detected
yet! let alone detected wrongly :-[



Please please please can someone either tell me how to fix this or tell me
what cheap IEEE1394 card have the TI chipset so I can try that if nothing
else is going to work!

Thanks,
Ian (highly frustrated!)
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Thanks but I had already worked my way through your site without much luck.
The cable is brand new!

Ian


Graham Hughes said:
Check out all of these solutions, but I'd plump for checking cable first.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/ProblemPages/CannotCapture.htm

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com


Cari (MS-MVP) said:
Camcorder powered by A/C and not it's battery?
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



Ian Warren said:
Okay I got a camcorder for Xmas last year and have just bought a laptop
so I
can try to edit some of my camcorder videos.

Specs are as follows:
Camera:
JVC GR-D20EK Mini-DV
Good as new
Oh and PAL

Laptop:
AMD Sempron 2800+
Win XP OEM SP2
Windows video editor or whatever its called (you know, the free thing
with
winxp)
PCMCIA IEEE1394 from SAFECOM (I don't think it is TI chipset but can't
find
anywhere that says one way or the other)
New 6-4 DV cable as required for camera-PCMCIA
All above brand new.

Problem as it stands:
Stuck IEEE1394 card in laptop no problem installed and said it was
connected
and fine (runs NEC OHCI Driver not bog standard OHCI one but not TI
either)
(also no irq conflicts and device manager show IEEE1394 working fine)
stuck in cable and linked to camcorder
turned camcorder on
nothing
absolutely bugger all

clicked capture told to connect a camcorder!

have tried connecting in all manner of orders
power first, power last, camera on then laptop, everything
still nothing

have tried the two patches from microsoft which are meant to fix the SP2
problems
again not a sausage

haven't done the PAL detected as NTSC fix as it still isn't even detected
yet! let alone detected wrongly :-[



Please please please can someone either tell me how to fix this or tell
me
what cheap IEEE1394 card have the TI chipset so I can try that if nothing
else is going to work!

Thanks,
Ian (highly frustrated!)
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Find a friend's PC and see if it works with that . Helps to narrow down the
problem as to whether it's the camcorder or the PC.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



Ian Warren said:
Hi Cari,

Yeah I've tried both!


Cari (MS-MVP) said:
Camcorder powered by A/C and not it's battery?
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



Ian Warren said:
Okay I got a camcorder for Xmas last year and have just bought a laptop so
I
can try to edit some of my camcorder videos.

Specs are as follows:
Camera:
JVC GR-D20EK Mini-DV
Good as new
Oh and PAL

Laptop:
AMD Sempron 2800+
Win XP OEM SP2
Windows video editor or whatever its called (you know, the free thing with
winxp)
PCMCIA IEEE1394 from SAFECOM (I don't think it is TI chipset but can't
find
anywhere that says one way or the other)
New 6-4 DV cable as required for camera-PCMCIA
All above brand new.

Problem as it stands:
Stuck IEEE1394 card in laptop no problem installed and said it was
connected
and fine (runs NEC OHCI Driver not bog standard OHCI one but not TI
either)
(also no irq conflicts and device manager show IEEE1394 working fine)
stuck in cable and linked to camcorder
turned camcorder on
nothing
absolutely bugger all

clicked capture told to connect a camcorder!

have tried connecting in all manner of orders
power first, power last, camera on then laptop, everything
still nothing

have tried the two patches from microsoft which are meant to fix the
SP2
problems
again not a sausage

haven't done the PAL detected as NTSC fix as it still isn't even detected
yet! let alone detected wrongly :-[



Please please please can someone either tell me how to fix this or tell me
what cheap IEEE1394 card have the TI chipset so I can try that if nothing
else is going to work!

Thanks,
Ian (highly frustrated!)
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