"Failed to connect to driver" in MF6 under Win7-64

[mogelbogel]

Hi everybody,

I couldn't find an answer to this via search in the forum or with Goggle, so I hope somebody here may have an answer.

I used to use Movifactory 6 on my old Computer with Win XP. Unfortunately the motherboard died and along with the new hardware I migrated to Win7-64. It appears, however, that under this system I can't convince MF6 to connect to my Camcorder. Installation of the software was smooth, including the "patch 2", and when I don't attach the camcorder to the computer and click on "add media" the software connects well to my Logitech Webcam, so I guess everything works fine so far.

When I first connected my Panasonic NV-GS80EG-S to the computer (firewire), some drivers were automatically downloaded and the Camcorder shows up in the device manager. However, when I switch in the MF6 window the device from Webcam to "DV" I get the message "failed to connect to driver: Panasonic DV device" (The original English message may be somewhat different, I translated from the German message "Verbindung zum Treiber konnte nicht hergestellt werden: Panasonic DV-Gerät"). The DV-option then disappears.

So, MF6 somehow "senses" that the Panasonic Camcorder is attached, showing the new 'DV' option in the pulldown-menu, but for some reason it doesn't like the installed driver or so.

If anybody should have an idea how to solve it, I'd greatly appreciate this. Or if somebody should know for sure this is not going to work, it'll also help. Saving time anyway, I already spent the better part of the day on this. Are there any known incompatibilities, maybe with Win 7-64 and MF6?

Best regards and thanks for any help.

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums,

The problem lies mainly with what MS done with the IEEE-1394b (firewire) driver. Here's an article explaining it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows ... 54502.aspx

Also try the solution posted on This Forum

[mogelbogel]

Yesssss! Bingo, thank you so much!

I 've got to admit that I saved the details of the Microsoft white paper for later and went to the solution on the other forum first and it worked. In short, one has to tell Win7 to use a different driver for the firewire (1384) interface (browse my computer, let me pick), which comes apparently with windows but is not used usually called "1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy)" or, in German "alt (=old)" instead of Legacy.

I don't know which other problems this may cause but since I have no firewire device other than the camcorder, I don't really care. Notebook-Desktop firewire networks don't work in Win7 any more anyway.

Thank you again, this really was a great help.