I have a GR-D244U JVC mini-DV digital video camera and i have hooked it up to my WinXP PC with a firewire cable. When I boot up my video capture program (I have tried 5 of them) they will have full control over the camera (play, stop, rw/ff) but the video will not capture. I sent it in b/c I thought that it was defective, but they said that it works fine.

Any suggestions?

5/10/2006 8:02:47 PM

Windows Movie Maker is supposed to capture, escp. if it's recognizing it and playing it back and forth.

Make sure there's not a setting on the camcorder that needs to be enabled to send video/out out.

5/10/2006 8:54:53 PM

From what I understand, JVC didn't follow spec on some of their cameras. Because of this, they don't work on all firewire cards. If I remember correctly, they work best on cards with a TI chipset. My papa got a jvc mini-dv cam and I couldn't figure it why it would work on my laptop but not his desktop, until I started looking around on google. Some people report very specific connection steps to get it working, but I didn't have much luck with them. See what you can find, specific to your model.

5/11/2006 11:56:23 AM

^ you are exactly right! For some reason it has full control over my camera, but it can't capture any video. This is really wierd

5/12/2006 4:00:21 PM