Using my older vid cam as a web cam

[Marty]

I have a sony DCR-TRV20 video camera, it has a s-video out port and I want to
use it as a web cam. Is this possible? It is the older 8mm type of tape
recorder. What software or freeware is available? Can windows media or
movie maker do this? Thanks
MB

[novice]

"Marty" > wrote in message
...
>I have a sony DCR-TRV20 video camera, it has a s-video out port and I want
>to
> use it as a web cam. Is this possible? It is the older 8mm type of tape
> recorder. What software or freeware is available? Can windows media or
> movie maker do this? Thanks
> MB
>

You can configure such a cam as a webcam, but
do you have an S-Video capture input on your PC?
If you don't, you will have to install a capture card
or use an external capture device such as Pinnacles
Dazzle USB external capture device, a cheaper
option than a capture card or external device is to
just buy a basic USB webcam.
If you are confident your PC has an S-Video capture
input - but don't confuse with your graphics cards
S-Video out, ensure you have a capture card.
To configure..depends what you will be using it for?
MSN messenger, Yahoo, AIM etc have help sections
with full guidence, or google produced 1250,000 results:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=webcam%2C+S-Video&btnG=Search&meta=