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doggy4s · Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 16

Anyone familiar with controling a DV camera from a ahk script (through firewire) ?
In particular start and stop recording to tape instruction to the camera . (no transfer form file or importing footage , viewing etc ). just remotly controling the cam functions through a script

help appreciated
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Guest · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject:

found some information :

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/DVCam.mspx

not familiar with how to implement this does anyone able to give me a lead ?
As I am using a ahk script to intercept/add certain functions to a video software package (succesfully) I would like to add thepreviously mentioned DVcam function to the script .

Guess it would have been easyer if it would have been through a .dll or so ?
The package has abunch of .dll files and one of them might have a function ( if I can call it thsi way ) that can be addresses ? how does one look for this ?

thanks

n-l-i-d · Guest

I guess this needs COM/OLE and it ain't going to be easy... Maybe Sean could help out, cross your fingers. Wink

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doggy4s · Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 16

I am sorry as I actually misfrased it all

rather than controling it I would like to intercept the state of the camera ( when ist recording or not etc) and let my scripts work from there ( hope this is easyer)

if cam is recording pass on keystroke to application , if not ....

kind of making a slave function