PC to Liteon LVW5001 Via Firewire

[martin2045]

Can anybody help. I want to send Edited video from my PC to my liteon 5001 iLink firewire socket but it doesn't seem to work. The PC makes a dinging sound to say that it is connected but I can't send the video through it. I can send video back to my camcorder and then to the lvw5001 which make this a long process. Is there a driver that I can use to enable me to send video from my PC.

[bobcat56458]

I don't have a LiteOn recorder, but I do have a ilo recorder that is said to be made by LiteOn. Here is a post I made in a ilo thread; {I tried exporting a DV video file from my computer too the ilo DVDR04 and it would not work. So I tried a work around, what I did was connect my Panasonic camcorder to one of the 3 firewire ports on my computer, and connected the ilo's firewire port to the second firewire port on my computer. I did this using two 4 to 6 pin firewire cables. On the computer I ran the WinDV program, and loaded up a DV video file into the "Source file:" under the "Recording to DV device" tab. I then put the camcorder in the VCR mode with no tape loaded in the unit. I then followed the instructions in the ilo manual on how to record DV from a camcorder. Then I pressed the "Record" button twice in WinDV and I was now able to export the DV file from the computer to the ilo recorder! It seems you have to trick the ilo recorder into thinking it is getting the DV video stream from a camcorder, when it is actually getting it from a computer. It appears the ilo recorder cannot see the "Microsoft DV Camera and VCR" as a DV device, but using this work around it can.} This method works fine on my Win98SE computer, but I have to do an additional step with my Windows XP computer. With XP I also have to have a cable connected to the composite A\V input\output on the camcorder, (it does have a unrelated video\audio signal going into that analog input). Now this analog connection is not actually being used, but for some reason just having it connected allows the XP computer the ability to send DV to the standalone DVD recorder when used with the connections above.

[martin2045]

Thanks for the help but I only have one 4pin firewire port on my laptop.
I tryed connecting the tv out to the av1 front phoneo sockets and the firewire as you said but nothing happens. I've looked at buying a firewire hub But at £50 it abit much. I might buy a 3 port firewire PCI card for the wifes desktop PC they start at around £15 at PCworld. I will post again when I've tryed that. If anybody knows of any other way around this problem please help.