"Rob D" wrote in message
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"John Russell" wrote in message
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"Rob D" wrote in message
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Someone´s given me some MiniDV footage shot on Long Play, what´s worse,
on a different brand of camcorder than mine. It plays back fine through
my camera, but I can´t capture it via Firewire through any apps I´ve
tried. having just googled the problem it does seem to be quite a well
known issue. What I´d like to know is if anyone here´s found a way
around it other than capturing in analog - which does work BTW.

Rob


Are you sure it's Long Play. and not ELP?

It could well be, John. In fact this problem is bigger than I first
thought: Although I did state that capturing in analog *does* work, I must
admit I was not 100% correct - as I could see & hear the video playing
back through my camcorder I assumed that capturing through analog (Matrox
RT. X10) would be a foregone conclusion, it isn´t and I was wrong! I can
get the sound but no picture.
This LP or ELP business is really annoying: Personally, I think
manufacturers include such stuff purely as a sales gimmick (a la recording
directly to DVD or printers which print directly from memory cards),
which gives nothing useful to serious users. If this footage wasn´t
valuable for its content, then I´d have just binned it by now!
I´m now gonna see if I can at least record the output from the camcorder´s
analog connections onto an S-VHS recording deck. If I can, then at least I
know I can get the footage onto computer from there.

Rob


ELP is not supported as part of the DV standard. That's why they explicilty
call the socket DV, it isn't a general purpose I-link socket. So your
camcorder only appears as a DV tape device if DV compressions have been
used, and that means SP or LP.