BAFFLING DV/FIREWIRE MYSTERY ----*** IS GOING ON HERE?

i there, I have a used g5 at my house that has been inconsistently reading the DV stream, by this I mean that FCP and reads vtr ok and has audio but no video. I try both basic and standard for the device control, but not dice. Sometimes when I swithc it will freeze the first frame of video and hold it. Same for QT and imovie, which leads me to belive that its a firewire problem. So I take my camera and tapes to the local college's mac lab and hook it into their g5 there, SAME FREAKING PROBLEM, which would make one deduce that its either the camera or tape. So i give it one last chance and hook my camera into the college's g4 imacs and wa-la everythings kosher. So what gives? My theory is that its some weird interface problem with the g5 and my model of palmcorder (jvc), but it seems firewire should be standard. any tips would be appreciated as I am pulling my hair out on this on, thanks
oh btw, i recently did an archive and install with osx if that helps anybody. maybe its some funky firewire pref file?

Could it be this?
#30 - Deck recognition after Tiger Upgrade:
Shane's Stock Answer #30:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1063600&#1063600
The credit for this goes to Bob Sidebotham:
I was just walked through a repair procedure by an Apple Care person, and it fixed my camera recognition problems (I have a Canon XL1 and sometime after installing Tiger, then 10.4.1, various patches (including Quicktime 7.1) and the latest Desktop Video patch, I've been unable to use the camera with Final Cut Express, and attempts to capture would result in a FCE crash).
The workaround is to download Quicktime manually, after removing the "receipts" which indicate that it is loaded. Specifically, I was told to do the following:
1. Navigate to Library -> Receipts on your main drive (not from your personal folder).
2. Remove all files of the form QuickTime*.pkg, where "*" is a version number. E.g. QuickTime600.pkg, QuickTime650.pkg, Quicktime700.pkg and QuickTime701.pkg. This simply tells your system that those packages are not installed.
3. Go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/downloads and click on the "download Quicktime" link. DO NOT USE THE AUTOMATIC UPDATE UTILITY. Download QuickTimeInstallerX.dmg. Double click this file (probably on your desktop) and then invoke the installer by double clicking QuickTime701.pkg.
4. After your computer reboots, you should be able to restart FCP and see your camera.
Shane

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