Video Capture Problems Win XP Home Edition

Guys, this is terrible!
I have been happily working away capturing video in XP Pro on my old
machine. A week ago, I purchased an ACER machine Pentium 4, 3Ghz with 1Ghz
RAM. On the machine is Win XP Home Version 2002 SP1. I swapped the Pinnacle
card to the new machine and installed Studio V9.1. (A complete new package) I
have a Panasonic NV-DS30A video camera.

For many an hour now I have tried many different ideas from many different
forums to get answers on my error message: 'Capture Device Initialization
Error, Pinnacle Studio is trying to initialize a DV or Digital 8 Camcorder
via a 1394 port'. I have removed the IEEE 1394 Host Controllers, removed the
card, moved it to a different slot, downloaded so many possible fixes that
I'm sure that I am to run out of 80Ghz hard drive space soon!

My question is (apart from the obvious (HELP)) Under the IEEE 1394 Host
Controllers in device manager, is there only 'OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host
Controller'? Or should there be something else? I simply have that one drop
down. If so, can you point me to a download to add what ever it is I need?

Some knowns: 1. The same rig was working well on my other machine. I have
purchased a new firewire cable just in case - no joy. 2. I have changed
operating systems from XP Pro (on my old machine) to XP Home already
installed on the new one. 3. My Camera works fine. 4. I cannot get a capture
in Windows Movie Maker either. 5. My camera does not seem to exist at all
even though turned on to mains power, in camera mode.

I would really appreciate some thoughts on this subject.

Ian

For video capture,a great utility,and for editing is the WM encoder 9 series,
along with that,download from authoriting utilitys (get all),is the WMCAP9.
Between those 2 youre editing woes are over.You can get them from windows
media home-page,downloads,scroll from WMP9 to encoder,download,then click
om text for page,get the codecs installation also.

"Ian" wrote:

Guys, this is terrible!
I have been happily working away capturing video in XP Pro on my old
machine. A week ago, I purchased an ACER machine Pentium 4, 3Ghz with 1Ghz
RAM. On the machine is Win XP Home Version 2002 SP1. I swapped the Pinnacle
card to the new machine and installed Studio V9.1. (A complete new package) I
have a Panasonic NV-DS30A video camera.

For many an hour now I have tried many different ideas from many different
forums to get answers on my error message: 'Capture Device Initialization
Error, Pinnacle Studio is trying to initialize a DV or Digital 8 Camcorder
via a 1394 port'. I have removed the IEEE 1394 Host Controllers, removed the
card, moved it to a different slot, downloaded so many possible fixes that
I'm sure that I am to run out of 80Ghz hard drive space soon!

My question is (apart from the obvious (HELP)) Under the IEEE 1394 Host
Controllers in device manager, is there only 'OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host
Controller'? Or should there be something else? I simply have that one drop
down. If so, can you point me to a download to add what ever it is I need?

Some knowns: 1. The same rig was working well on my other machine. I have
purchased a new firewire cable just in case - no joy. 2. I have changed
operating systems from XP Pro (on my old machine) to XP Home already
installed on the new one. 3. My Camera works fine. 4. I cannot get a capture
in Windows Movie Maker either. 5. My camera does not seem to exist at all
even though turned on to mains power, in camera mode.

I would really appreciate some thoughts on this subject.

Ian

Try the capture with WinDV
http://windv.mourek.cz/



--
Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker




"Ian" wrote in message
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Guys, this is terrible!
I have been happily working away capturing video in XP Pro on my old
machine. A week ago, I purchased an ACER machine Pentium 4, 3Ghz with 1Ghz
RAM. On the machine is Win XP Home Version 2002 SP1. I swapped the
Pinnacle
card to the new machine and installed Studio V9.1. (A complete new
package) I
have a Panasonic NV-DS30A video camera.

For many an hour now I have tried many different ideas from many different
forums to get answers on my error message: 'Capture Device Initialization
Error, Pinnacle Studio is trying to initialize a DV or Digital 8 Camcorder
via a 1394 port'. I have removed the IEEE 1394 Host Controllers, removed
the
card, moved it to a different slot, downloaded so many possible fixes that
I'm sure that I am to run out of 80Ghz hard drive space soon!

My question is (apart from the obvious (HELP)) Under the IEEE 1394 Host
Controllers in device manager, is there only 'OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394
Host
Controller'? Or should there be something else? I simply have that one
drop
down. If so, can you point me to a download to add what ever it is I need?

Some knowns: 1. The same rig was working well on my other machine. I have
purchased a new firewire cable just in case - no joy. 2. I have changed
operating systems from XP Pro (on my old machine) to XP Home already
installed on the new one. 3. My Camera works fine. 4. I cannot get a
capture
in Windows Movie Maker either. 5. My camera does not seem to exist at all
even though turned on to mains power, in camera mode.

I would really appreciate some thoughts on this subject.

Ian

I am having a similar problem. Everything worked fine
when I used Windows ME but now in XP my computer doesn't
recognize my camcorder as being there. I checked the
compatability of VideoWave 4 (software that came with my
Dazzle DVC 80 adaptor cable to connect Analog video
camera) and it is only compatable with XP pro and not the
home edition. I am looking for a fix myself!
Bonita

-----Original Message-----
Try the capture with WinDV
http://windv.mourek.cz/



--
Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for
Windows MovieMaker




"Ian" wrote in message
news:6023B92F-FCFC-4FB6-9C06-
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Guys, this is terrible!
I have been happily working away capturing video in XP
Pro on my old
machine. A week ago, I purchased an ACER machine
Pentium 4, 3Ghz with 1Ghz
RAM. On the machine is Win XP Home Version 2002 SP1. I
swapped the
Pinnacle
card to the new machine and installed Studio V9.1. (A
complete new
package) I
have a Panasonic NV-DS30A video camera.

For many an hour now I have tried many different ideas
from many different
forums to get answers on my error message: 'Capture
Device Initialization
Error, Pinnacle Studio is trying to initialize a DV or
Digital 8 Camcorder
via a 1394 port'. I have removed the IEEE 1394 Host
Controllers, removed
the
card, moved it to a different slot, downloaded so many
possible fixes that
I'm sure that I am to run out of 80Ghz hard drive
space soon!

My question is (apart from the obvious (HELP)) Under
the IEEE 1394 Host
Controllers in device manager, is there only 'OHCI
Compliant IEEE 1394
Host
Controller'? Or should there be something else? I
simply have that one
drop
down. If so, can you point me to a download to add
what ever it is I need?

Some knowns: 1. The same rig was working well on my
other machine. I have
purchased a new firewire cable just in case - no joy.
2. I have changed
operating systems from XP Pro (on my old machine) to
XP Home already
installed on the new one. 3. My Camera works fine. 4.
I cannot get a
capture
in Windows Movie Maker either. 5. My camera does not
seem to exist at all
even though turned on to mains power, in camera mode.

I would really appreciate some thoughts on this
subject.

Ian





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