Camera not recognized via firewire connection

[cil1rjn]

WinXP Pro SP2, firewire PCI card and 4 pin to 6 pin cable not recognizing my Panasonic GS50 dv camera. PC device manager sees the firewire card but nothing happens after making the camera to PC
connection via the firewire cable. Already replaced cable and tried a
different dv camera but got same result. Where should I go from here?

[TaoTeWingChun]

Go itno Control Panel and uninstall the FireWire card. Rebott and let Windoze re-install it. When it's done, try to plug in the camera again and see what happens.

Cheers!

TTWC

[cil1rjn]

Tried all of the above to no avail (sigh). . .
Guess I'll pull the card & start looking for a replacement. . .
I've seen other posts stating that XP SP2 is sensitive to 1394 chipset
mfgr so I guess I'll have to look at that too. . .

[greymalkin]

The firewire port on your camcorder also may be fried.

my Panasonic PV-GS120 has had a blown firewire port for as long as i've owned it...You can capture you footage using s-video into virtualdub with uncompressed avi or huffyuv.

[harley2ride]

I know that my Panasonic PVGS70 came with software that had to be installed on my PC, before it would let me transfer via firewire. Make sure you check your camera's documentation carefully. If you don't have it on hardcopy, download it from the net.

[cosiz]

Just thought I add for the record that I've had two different 4 to 6 pin firewire cables that were bad, so that is another possibility to check. I bought the 2nd cable and assumed my Sony camera was broken when it didn't work. Then a friend brought his camera over with his own cable and it was recognized straight away. I tried his cable with my Sony and viola, the sweet sound of recognition.

[Chaoji3791]

My father-in-law is having the exact same problem. His XP Home PC recognizes the Firewire card, but none of his capture apps (Stoik, Amcap, DVIO etc) will recognize the camcorder. But it's not the camcorder or the cable that's the problem, because I've tested both on my PC (which is running XP Pro) and they both work fine. Here's the weird thing: he took his PC to a nearby computer store, and they connected up a DV camcorder and voila, he was able to capture. Then he brings it home, and I connect up my camcorder and ... nada.

We've tried everything - rebooting, uninstalling and reintalling the Firewire card ... I've been a desktop video producer for 8 years now and I'm stumped.

[gold4knight]

Has your problem been solved. I experienced the same issue but got it solve by changing the firewire card. Went to the shop with my camcorder, asked the sales person to install the firewire card to a computer and connect my camcorder to it.
Right now, I'm happily capturing dvs to my comp.

[Chaoji3791]

We still haven't solved the problem, but the fault doesn't seem to lie with his FireWire card, because other brands of camcorders work with his PC just fine. Just not my Panasonic MX500, for some weird reason. We plug it in and switch it on and the PC doesn't respond to it in any way. But plug in a Sony or Canon or whatever and hey presto.

[edDV]

Try the camcorder on another computer.

[Chaoji3791]

I don't think I can be bothered. My father-in-law only has three DV tapes to capture, transfers of his old 8mm films. Once he's got those on his PC ready to edit and author to DVD, he'll probably never use the FireWire card again unless he buys a high-end scanner or something in the future. Rather than dick around trying to get his PC to recgnize my camcorder, I'm just gonna capture the tapes for him myself, and give him the .avi files on DVD-RWs.