SONY DCR-VTR17 not recognized via i.Link to SONY PCV-RX672

Hi there,

Have been looking over the various news groups, SONY web site, Premier
web site, etc. Have tried numerous things with no luck. Here is the
scenario:
- SONY DCR-VTR17
- SONY PCV-RX672
- i.Link connection-have tried both 4pin-4pin (just bought this cable)
and 4pin-6pin (this one was supplied with the camera)
- Software: Premier 7 Pro, DVGate, Ulead DVDFactory and Ulead Visual
Studio
- OS: WinXP Home with SP1 and all available updates ALSO Win2000 with
SP4

- I get no indication the camera is plugged in.
- All the mentioned software indicates no capture device online,
device control for all the software show capture device as OFFLINE.
- Device Manager shows no IMAGING device and there are no messages
indicating anything has happened when I plug in the camera.
- I did go into the SONY menu and ensure DV IN/OUT was set to ON
- I did ensure the camera is set to VCR
- I did ensure the camera was running on AC power rather than battery
- I did ensure the camera was playing video in VCR mode

I DO see "Legacy Video Capture Devices" under "Sound Video and Game
Controllers" - it shows "WDM Video For Windows Capture Driver (Win32)"
and is always in Device Manager whether the camera is plugged in or
not. Have no idea if this is a good thing, bad thing or completely
unrelated.

Other pertinent points:
- I've tried the 'Switcher' mentioned on the Adobe Premier site. The
switcher program says the Windows drivers are already installed - when
I try to switch back to the SONY drivers, it says they are not
available. I'm assuming this was an old 'pre-XP' problem and does not
apply to me.
- I can install a Dazzle DVC-80 USB analog capture device (and it even
shows up in the Device Manager as an IMAGING DEVICE) and get it
working. However, I'm hoping for higher quality capture with DV over
analog. Also, I cannot seem to find a plugin for analog capture with
the DVC80 with Premier.

Yet to go:
- I hope I can find a friendly camera / SONY shop here in KL, Malaysia
that will let met plug my camera into a system with the i.Link to see
if the camera is, in fact, working properly.
- Worst case, I can try another Firewire PCI card, but don't want to
spend the money unless I think I have a chance of success.

Any and all input welcome and appreciated.

 

(BLG) wrote in message I forgot to mention - the 1394 controller DOES appear in Device
Manager and is enabled (Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394
Host Controller). Hope someone out there in rec.video.desktop land
can help. All I got from SONY was a canned reply that didn't even
show recognition that I was connecting a SONY DVCam to a SONY PC.

Thanks