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Yes, I think if you used a Sony camcorder it would work perfectly. Sony computers in most cases only talk to Sony camcorders. I have a buddy that bought a Sony 518DS at the same time as I bought mine. In fact we have consecutive S/Ns. He bought a Canon Optura and has never been able to make it work but I can hook up my Sony D8 camcorder to his computer and it works perfectly. I don.t think it is a problem with the 1394 video or audio but there seems to be a difference in the camcorder control commands that are also sent over the firewire cable. He was able to put DVmotion into the manual mode and capture video by pushing buttons on the camcorder by hand.

I would think that if you did not use DVgate and used the built in video capture features of XP that there should be a way around this but I don't know what it would be. Hopefully someone else that is up to speed on XP or the current versions of DVgate can help you out.

Dave