


So my objective was to find a way to connect the camcorder to a USB port on my computer. In my case I have a mini ITX system with no PCI slot available for an internal Firewire card. Computers have not been equipped with a Firewire port for a while now. The DV camcorder, being 20 years old, has no USB port only a Firewire 400 IEE1394 port. To capture Mini DV (not HDV but the principles should apply) tapes into Premier Pro 2020 on Windows. Having had quite a battle with this I thought I'd put together some notes which it would have been very useful to be able to find in one place! The name of the driver type in the system is: 1394, and the drive type GUID is. This method is more effective than any others, and 100% correct.There are many other information items that you can use to find the driver version information and the required driver files. According to these two ID values, the matching driver information can be accurately found. These two ID values are unique and will not be duplicated with other hardware. VIA 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller driver installation informationThe following is driver installation information, which is very useful to help you find or install drivers for VIA 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller.For example: Hardware ID information item, which contains the hardware manufacturer ID and hardware ID.
