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Blahman
07-18-2006, 06:00 PM
I have a Canon ZR45MC digital camcorder that I've hooked up to my XPS Gen 2 through a 4-pin to 4-pin firewire cable to do some video capture. It worked fine the first time, I was able to use ScenalyzerLIVE and Adobe Premiere to control and capture from the camcorder. The next time I tried it (nothing had changed on my machine) neither program could capture from it. Windows detects it properly as a Canon DV Camera and ScenalyzerLIVE "sees" it but is unable to control or capture from it. Premiere doesn't even see it.

I gave up for a few months, and today I tried again. Once again it worked the first time, but after rebooting (I updated my NVIDIA drivers) it stopped. I hate this crap. It works fine on my desktop machine.

Anyone had this problem and fixed it?
galahad05
07-28-2006, 01:29 AM
From the Wikipedia Firewire entry:

Operating system support

Full support for IEEE 1394a and 1394b is available for FreeBSD, Linux and Apple Mac OS X operating systems. Microsoft Windows XP supports 1394a and 1394b, but as of service pack 2 the default speed for all types of FireWire is S100 (100 Mbit/second). A download and registry modification is available from Microsoft to restore performance to either S400 or S800. Microsoft Windows Vista will initially support 1394a with 1394b support coming later in a service pack. [4]


I don't know if this is a potential problem (I'm not too big on firewire), but hey, it might be worth looking into.
Blahman
08-01-2006, 08:24 PM
well I don't know how true that is since I've benchmarked my external firewire drive at over 40 MByte/s or 320 Mbit/s, using WXP SP2. Thanks though.
galahad05
08-01-2006, 10:39 PM
Do you have access to a desktop or another laptop (with Firewire, of course)? If so, try your camcorder on that other machine(s)...
Kilroy M1730
08-02-2006, 01:43 PM
Do you have access to a desktop or another laptop (with Firewire, of course)? If so, try your camcorder on that other machine(s)...


Just a wild guess, but I am assuming that the part where he says:

" It works fine on my desktop machine."

Most likely means he DOES have access to a desktop, and that he did indeed try it, with apparent success.:|
galahad05
08-02-2006, 01:52 PM
My bad.