On 10 Jan 2002 04:58:56 -0800, yanni@drexel.edu (Yanni) wrote:

>I tried to use my XL1 camera as a webcamera by using an IEEE-1394
>connection with my computer. Unfortunately none of the
>video-conferencing programs were able to link to it. I tried using
>NetMeeting, YahooMessenger, VideoLink etc. All of them kept giving me
>error messages. Does anybody know why? From what I understood all
>these programs can see the XL1 but its' format is incompatible with
>them. Can someone help me?

Web cams are cheap (I just bought a used one
for $7...) - why use an XL-1 for this purpose?
As for your question, the Mini-DV camcorder
format (NTSC) is 720x480 pixels - perhaps this
is the source of the problem?