Hi, I have a Sony Mini DV DCR-HC44 video camera. Worked fine with XP using
a Firewire to upload my video. Since installing Windows Vista will not work.
Have used MM to acquire capture but says can not find camera, firewire card
all installed and said to be working fine. Did once get the card to start
capturing once but then halted and froze up after a few seconds, since then
can not capture video,

Sony says the camera is compatible with Vista, have read lots of issues in
respect of this but no clear soloution, please help.

HI THERE HAVE YOU FOUND THE ANSWER TO YOUR PROBLEM.MY PANASONIC MINI DV AS
THE SAME PROBLEM IT WAS FINE WITH XP.SOME ONE HELP.CHEERS.

"nick npn29" wrote:
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> Hi, I have a Sony Mini DV DCR-HC44 video camera. Worked fine with XP using
> a Firewire to upload my video. Since installing Windows Vista will not work.
> Have used MM to acquire capture but says can not find camera, firewire card
> all installed and said to be working fine. Did once get the card to start
> capturing once but then halted and froze up after a few seconds, since then
> can not capture video,
>
> Sony says the camera is compatible with Vista, have read lots of issues in
> respect of this but no clear soloution, please help.
>[/color]

"nick npn29" <nicknpn29@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B9A90E87-C0F6-43C4-BCFD-CE78E122D728@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Hi, I have a Sony Mini DV DCR-HC44 video camera. Worked fine with XP
> using
> a Firewire to upload my video. Since installing Windows Vista will not
> work.
> Have used MM to acquire capture but says can not find camera, firewire
> card
> all installed and said to be working fine. Did once get the card to start
> capturing once but then halted and froze up after a few seconds, since
> then
> can not capture video,
>
> Sony says the camera is compatible with Vista, have read lots of issues
> in
> respect of this but no clear soloution, please help.
>[/color]

Which chipset is your firewire port using on the PC? Texas Instruments
chipsets usually work fine, but others sometimes have problems. If your PC
has a VIA chipset or some other type, fitting a standard Firewire card with
a TI chipset may resolve the issue. My board - Asus P5B-Deluxe uses TI and
works fine with my Sony mini DV camcorder and Vista 64

Katoninja <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote:
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>
>Yes I too have a sharpe mini-dv and I am using a Expresscard/34 IEEE
>1394a (firewire) and a 6pin to 4pin cable. I get very raley footage and
>then locks up, or complete garbage, or I get put tape in, or some times
>I get can not find av/c subunit. I wonder if there is an answer out
>there for this problem.[/color]

Since this thread is from over a year ago, it doesn't look good.