Saturday, October 20, 2007

Installing the Driver for SVP 2500

Many customers complained about unable to install the driver, view webcam from the camera, and etc. Customers are either stupid or just don't know tech stuffs. Well- there is nothing wrong with the camera for sure but don't bother using the automatic installer to install the drivers from CD.

Okay, several times I have tried to install the driver but didn't worked. Finally, I searched on google and found the website where someone mentioned that we should *MANUALLY* install the driver. *I could not find the website where I found this information. It either at forums.CNET.com or digitalcamera-hq.com. You just have to search for it there. "SVP" or "SVP ....your product name or #"

CD: Digital Camera And Digital Video (Driver & Application Software) for Windows 98/ME, 2000, and XP. I don't know if it works on Vista but someday I will try it.

Open drivers folder via "My Computer" (Windows) from the CD. Open the CD file.. do not click on the CD to launch the installation program.

a) F:\Drivers\XVID:
a1- Click on the XviD Setup file
If doesn't install:
a2- XviD (download the latest version from the official website: http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.15.0.html or XviD 1.1.3 Stable)

b) F:\Drivers\DRIVERS: (Video Camera Drivers Setup)- Click on Win??SetupEn file for English or Cn for Chinese. If XP, then WinXpSetupEn

*NOTICE: If you are unable to open your Camera/Camcorder from your computer, then you can download the Drivers from SVP-Tech website- http://www.svp-tech.com/download.htm. Go look for your camera/camcorder. For HDDV2500/DV2500, use drivers from HDDV-2100/2400 HDDV-2100B HDDV-2100LE.

Direct Link: http://www.svp-tech.com/drv/2100/Drivers.zip

Drivers.zip\Drivers\XVID\XviD.exe
Drivers.zip\Drivers\DRIVERS\Win??SetupEn.exe