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Tom McCarthy Jr · February 9th, 2004, 09:17 AM

I have been capturing video from my sony dig cam to my sony vaio computer for four years, with great results. This month, the dvgate motion and dvstill software, recognize the camera and in fact control it, but I can't get any video. I have tested my firewire and camera on another computer and they check out. I installed a new PCI firewire card (didn't help). Of course, I uninstalled and reinstalled both applications. Sony support wasn't much help; they say to reformat my hard drive back to original setting. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Rob Lohman · February 10th, 2004, 02:24 AM

Any chance it could be your firewire cable? Did you use your or
another cable on the other computer? Do you get any warnings
or error messages? Can you try the demo of Scenalyzer
to see if it can capture anything?

John Gaspain · February 10th, 2004, 02:39 AM

I had a similar problem. It turns out that My Zonealarm firewall was blocking it. Do you use a firewall? If so just turn it off.

February 9th, 2004, 09:17 AM	#1
Tom McCarthy Jr Tourist Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Cambridge, MA Posts: 2	Help I have been capturing video from my sony dig cam to my sony vaio computer for four years, with great results. This month, the dvgate motion and dvstill software, recognize the camera and in fact control it, but I can't get any video. I have tested my firewire and camera on another computer and they check out. I installed a new PCI firewire card (didn't help). Of course, I uninstalled and reinstalled both applications. Sony support wasn't much help; they say to reformat my hard drive back to original setting. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks __________________ POPMAC

February 10th, 2004, 02:24 AM	#2
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	Any chance it could be your firewire cable? Did you use your or another cable on the other computer? Do you get any warnings or error messages? Can you try the demo of Scenalyzer to see if it can capture anything? __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

February 10th, 2004, 02:39 AM	#3
John Gaspain Major Player Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: WA-USA Posts: 371	I had a similar problem. It turns out that My Zonealarm firewall was blocking it. Do you use a firewall? If so just turn it off. __________________ The glory of the World passes by.