Sony Handycam via firewire not auto-detected

[Andrew Woodruffe]

My digital camcorder has the 4pin "i-link" AV out. I've
got a sony cable which connects it to ieee 1394 6pin on
my pc running xp. When connected it is not auto-detected
and video editing software does not not have any of the
capture operations available. Have I got to set anything
up?

[Brian]

It could be a bad cable, try another device if you can, or is i link
detected in XP?


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Regards Brian

"Andrew Woodruffe" > wrote in message
...
> My digital camcorder has the 4pin "i-link" AV out. I've
> got a sony cable which connects it to ieee 1394 6pin on
> my pc running xp. When connected it is not auto-detected
> and video editing software does not not have any of the
> capture operations available. Have I got to set anything
> up?

[Hausi Tellenbach]

Hi Andrew.

Try an other IEEE-1394 (aka Firewire aka i.Link) cable - I know many cases,
where a bad cable caused this, e.g.:
http://www.dvboard.com/index.php?s=&act=ST&f=13&t=21&st=75&#entry1713 and
many other posts...

Cheers,
Hausi

"Andrew Woodruffe" > wrote in message
...
> My digital camcorder has the 4pin "i-link" AV out. I've
> got a sony cable which connects it to ieee 1394 6pin on
> my pc running xp. When connected it is not auto-detected
> and video editing software does not not have any of the
> capture operations available. Have I got to set anything
> up?