Sony handycam

[Damiano]

Hi,
I have a Sony DCR-HC16E PAL DV camera which I connect to my PC through a firewire cable. Can anyone tell me whether or not I can use it with the NI vision acquisition software?
The problem is that MAX recognizes it as a bus class 61883 deviceand doesn't allow me to changebthe driver to use  the imaq1394 driver.
Thank you

[BruceAmmons]

This is not a compatible device.  It uses compressed video, and the NI drivers require uncompressed video.

I seem to remember it might work with other drivers, though.  If it is directshow compatible, it would work with the USB drivers.  There might be a third party driver for it, also.

Bruce

[MichaelWestwood]

Hi,

Have you tried the IVision Labview toolkit?  http://www.hytekautomation.com/Products/IVision.html

Mike

[Damiano]

I'll try and let you know.

Thank you

[SandeshKesarkar]

Hi!

you can get USB driver to run sony handycam on following link and it works fine with my sony camcorder.

http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.display_epd4?p_guid=ED6942DF78E34659E034080020E74861&p_...

Regards

Sandesh

[ChristopheC]

If the free link provided by Sandesh does not work for you, the company Alliance Vision has another DirectX driver compatible with LabVIEW and the Vision Development Module, as well as a DV library to acquire images from any DV camcorder.

http://www.alliancevision.com/us/index.html

Best regards,

-Christophe