Justin, yes you should get a new hardware found wizard open up.
Have you checked out the cannot capture page, which runs through lots of
testing ideas, to work out if any of the components are in fact faulty? It
may well mean going on a beg, steal or borrow mission!!!
I've never used my dv cam as a web cam, so can't answer that one without
researching it and I'm afraid I'm busy working at the moment.

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com


<juthan@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> Hi all...
>
> I've got a couple of newbie-style questions that I'd appreciate any
> help with.
>
> Firstly - when using firewire/IEEE1394/i-Link should the PC recognise
> the camera (Sony DCR-TRV33E) in the same style as a USB connection?
> I'm getting the same non-recognition problems as others have asked
> about here, and have followed some of the troubleshooting tips such as
> those on Graham's pages at myvideoproblems.com, but everything seems to
> be working fine within Windows (XP Pro SP2). I've opened the firewire
> port within Windows Firewall (even though I've got the whole thing
> turned off anyway), checked that the firewire card is working OK under
> device manager etc. I'm just not sure what is supposed to happen when
> I plug the samera in. Should the same type of "hey, I've detected a
> new device" popup appear?
>
> I have no other firewire devices so I'm struggling to think of how to
> test it some other way.
>
> Also, when using a DV camera as a webcam, is there any way to also get
> sound across a USB connection? MSN Messenger gets the video OK, but
> seems to be insisting on capturing audio via a separate feed (like a
> standard mike etc). I know there are programs that let you use the
> camera as a webcam which include audio, but they all use the firewire
> which the above point negates! :-)
>
> Thanks for reading...
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