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I bought this cable (
here)
and it ended up being the right match for my Panasonic GS80 DV camera, as well as for the port on my PC. But when I hook everything up, and turn on the camera, it gives me a bubble message (down by Date/Time on the taskbar) that says "your device has malfunctioned" and to click here to figure out the problem, but all it shows me when I click the little bubble is a list with one item on it, and tells me that it 'failed' or is 'unknown' and stuff.
I think I may need to find the CD that came with my DV camera (although I don't remember if there was a CD; I cannot seem to find any at the moment...it may be somewhere, though). I'm guessing there are drivers or something that I need to install.
I hope I did not cause it to 'malfunction' by plugging it in when the PC was on...I probably should not have done that. Although I did turn everything off the time that I finally got everything plugged into the right stuff, and turned the camera on (only to then see the message described above).
I'd really like to get this whole thing figured out, and finally get my footage onto my PC, and make some cool videos :P
