Re: Can Sony dsc p12 to be used as web cam ?



In article <1128425904.445410.300130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
marios.pafitis@xxxxxxxxx says...
> Hello again and thanks for your earlier reply.
>
>
> As far as i am aware my sony dsc-p12 has a fuction A/V out port (mono)
> but i don't know how to connect with my laptop. What is a video capture
>
> card? how can i find out if i have one or not? Looking to my Note book
> user guide i found out that my laptop has an IEEE 1394 port that
> connects to a digital video camera. Can i buy the cable thats connects
> the laptop to the camera? what is it called?
>
>

The video output on the Sony camera is for doing a "slide show to your
television (if it has a video input).

The IEEE 1394 port on the computer can take the output from a digital
CAMCORDER not the output from your digicam. (it can also take the input
from a long and wide range of "firewire" type appliances such as hard
drives, cd/dvd burners ect.

The video port on your camera is a "null device" while the camera is in
"capture"(record) mode and will not function as a webcam.

Larry Lynch
Mystic, CT
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