I can't connect my PANASONIC DVR D220 to my computer, it wont read the DVDRAM format, Anyone know any drivers?

Question

PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

The USB slot is for transferring stills - you don't use it for video.  I don't know if DVD-RAM needs to be finalised (I'd guess not) so just put the mini DVD in your PC's DVD drive.  If that doesn't work try finalising the disk first.

Answer 2

How Are You Trying To Hook It Up? And Any 'Drivers' You Need Would be Supplied With The Camera.

02/08/2008 11:30 AM:

You Need To Hook-up The Camera With A FireWire (IEEE1394 / iLink) Cable Which You Can Buy  Almost Anywhere They Sell Computers Or Peripherals. The Computer Won't Read A DVD-RAM Disc Directly Because Of The Way The Computer Treats DVD-RAM Discs. It Wants It To Have A Certain Type Of File Directory Which The Camcorder Does Not Write And If The Computer Gives It One. The Files The Camcorder Wrote (Including Your Video Files) Will Be Lost.

If It Doesn't Have A FireWire Port, You Will Need To Use Any Other Type Of DVD Disc (-R, +R, -RW, +RW) So You Can Put The FINALIZED Disc Into Your Computer. Or Use The  Video / S-Video Connection(s) (If Your Computer Has A Video Capture Board / Inputs)

Good-Luck!!

Answer 3

Since we don't know what computer you have, that is a bit of a challenge to answer your question.

We do now that your camcorder is DVD based. Many computers have optical drives - but they play only CDs - not DVDs.

If you cannot play DVDs in your computer, this *might* be the reason why. If your computer does have a DVD drive (they also play CDs), then the other reason is that you need to finalize the disc (the instructions for doing that in the camcorder will be in the camcorder manual.

One last reason why you might be having a problem is that there is some sort of file corruption on the DVD from the camcorder. So - if you have a DVD drive on your computer AND you have finalized the disc, you will need to use ISOBuster to get to the DVD files. If you want to edit the files, you will need HandBrake.

You have discovered one of the many reasons that DVD drives were a good idea implemented very poorly by the manufacturers. If you have the opportunity, return the DVD based camcorder for a refund and get either a miniDV tape or hard drive based camcorder - You won't have these problems and the video quality will be much better. DVD based camcorders have the worst possible video quality... and if you want to rip the DVD (using something like HandBrake) to get the video so you can edit or upload to YouTube or something like that, the video quality will get even worse...