1394 - DV Camera not being recognized - Video Capture Driver

[kirklt]

I have had no problem capturing video from my Sony PC110 DV video camera for the past few years.

After installing a Hauppauge TV card, now I can suddenly no longer capture DV. I have tried taking out the TV card and I have no luck.

When I fire up Windows Movie Maker, I get a message "A video capture device was not detected".

I have tried plugging it into several 1394 ports but no luck. My other 1394 device, an external DVD writer, works fine.

Do I need a driver for my DV camera?

[edDV]

Are these ports on the motherboard? Is device manager showing normal IEEE-1394 controller operation?

Try WinDV. It sits on top of Directshow and is a good test of your XP DV modes.

If WinDV won't work, the problems are at the hardware driver, IEEE-1394 controller or DirectX level.

[kirklt]

I tried using WinDV - It says "No video device found"

In Device Manager all of the 1394 devices are working properly. I have tried using both the front and back ports on the motherboard. I have also tried the external port on my external CD writer.

[Adrian2k5]

Do you have SP2 installed? It seems there are some people (like me) that have problems with their DV-Devices after installing SP2.

[kirklt]

Yes, I have Service Pack 2 installed.

[Barnabas]

I have both a Hauppauge card and a DV device installed, and both run fine.

[greymalkin]

it's possible the firewire port on the camera got fried. you might want to try the camera on another computer, then have the camera checked out.

[kirklt]

That might make sense. The camera will not work on either of my two computers' 1394 port.

I can capture video through my ADS Pyro link on both computers through the 1394 port.

The camera works fine other than that. Can the port be fixed?

[Adrian2k5]

I have now some valuable information:

It seems that SP2 installs a new MSDV.sys and AVC.sys. Those files prevent the IEEE 1394 port to recognize the DV-Recorder correctly.
I found some help on the net how to replace those two files out of the driver.cab-archive back into SP2.cab (filearchive for windowsdrivers), but it did not work. Some others report that it worked..

I had to completely reinstall windows, first a format of the systemdrive, then a complete, clean installation of Windows XP without the servicepacks. Now it works fine again..
Microsoft doesn't have a patch for this problem ready right now, not for Win XP anyhow.. It seems that they have a hotfix for Millenium, though.

I guess you have to reinstall Windows and let it be in it's unstable, unsafe state as long as you want to capture DV...

I have no problem with that as this computer is not connected to the net, it's a videocutworkstation only.

I hope it's right what I wrote. This problem seems very new, only few report about that sort of problem.

Greetings,
Adrian

[edDV]

I have now some valuable information:

It seems that SP2 installs a new MSDV.sys and AVC.sys. Those files prevent the IEEE 1394 port to recognize the DV-Recorder correctly.
I found some help on the net how to replace those two files out of the driver.cab-archive back into SP2.cab (filearchive for windowsdrivers), but it did not work. Some others report that it worked..
...

Greetings,
Adrian

That must only apply to certain motherboard drivers. I and others have done the SP2 upgrade on many computers without this problem occuring.

Can you better identify your motherboard, CPU and other machine characteristics?

My experience has been with Intel, Gigabyte and Via motherboards with Intel processors.

[Mayer]

Try this

It worked for me no problem, might be your answer

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=252426

[greymalkin]

I have a DV camera and my firewire port is fried...apparently the panasonic pv-gs120 models had this happen quite often...for my model at least the firewire port is integrated onto the main board so the only way to fix it is to replace the whole board which costs more than buying a new camcorder :P. For regular everyday videos i just capture via s-video to .avi (raw or huffYUV) and then use TMPGEnc 3.0 Xpress to encode. The quality is still good. If I do an important video i just have to borrow my brother in laws camera and use the firewire out on it. I wanted to get a miniDV player but for some crazy reason they are outrageously expensive...why can I get a $250 dv camera that will playback miniDV through firewire AND record, but something that just plays costs $1000+???