Originally Posted by Ed Hammer

I went and picked up a Canon VIXIA HV30 video camera to rip some old mini dv tapes I have. I figured since I bought this camera, it would at leaste be good to use as a webcam, My video editing program "pinnacle" has no problem picking the camera up, stuff like yahoo will recognize the camera as being there, but doesn't show any video or sound from it.

any suggestions on how to get it to work as a webcam?

oh, and It's hooked up to the computer through firewire.