My grand-daughter has just been on a trip to London with her school and has taken photos on her MGA Bratz plugged in digital video camera. I offered to put her pics on disc and plugged the camera into my PC via USB 2.0. I am using XP Pro with service update 3. The PC finds the new hardware and tells me that it needs to search on the web for drivers for it, then after searching tells me that there are no drivers available for it. The camera was not supplied with a disc so I am now searching every available drivers download site but with no success. Is anybody able to assist me in my search ?? A young lady would be very grateful if I were able to download the pics. BTW although there is the facility for an Xd card the pics were taken without one and as such are on the cameras memory. Thanks for any assistance.
Bad News, Found this on Amazon.com reviews for the camera. Here is the product support page and I couldn't find any mention of your camera. http://www.arcsoft.com/public/download.asp If it uses an SD card like one reference mentioned, thaen see if someone has a card reader available for you to use... Good Luck though. Bratz Camera site. http://www.mgae.com/customerservice/instructions.asp?view=af which leads you to this. http://www.mgae.com/products/manuals/DIGITAL CAMERA 9-16.pdf http://www.mgae.com/products/manuals/DIGITAL CAMERA 1-8.pdf Tough search my friend. good luck. Found a video camera driver, that is all. http://be-bratz.com/Webcam.aspx
Many thanks for your efforts on my behalf, it looks as though it could be a long journey to get the pictures downloaded. Thanks again.
I'm guessing the pics will be stuck on there unless you have an sd card.. might be an idea to get say a 32 meg one (pennies) and see if there is a "move to card" menu option built in. That's all I can think of .. sorry .. I can't find any info.. but I remember the arcsoft toy cameras from a few years back.. they worked on linux sort of.. xp had an invalid dll message when attempting to install the driver (same name as an xp dll.. different size and contents). Sometimes there are even cheaper clones of these cameras.. or ones using the same chipset which do have some sort of drivers available.. I will have a hunt in linux world and edit later. [edit] why not try these generic mass storage device drivers? http://www.geocities.com/mypublic99/index.html
Varnull, after what bliveNC has said I feel I am in the presence of royalty..... lol. Thank you for trying to sort out out my problem, it is much appreciated. I have downloaded the generic mass storage devices from the links you provided and have saved them to my desktop. Here is where it gets tricky, I am not too computer savvy so if I just unzip 1 of the files what would I need to do with it then. Even though I want to get to the pictures as soon as I can I will wait until I get some instruction from you. Thanks again for your help.
Picked one at random and read the "readme.txt" file which comes with it... as should everybody when one is included.. contents of uchi.reg if anybody is interested Code: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\uhci] "type"=dword:00000001 "start"=dword:00000003 "ErrorControl"=dword:00000001 "Group"="Extended base" "ImagePath"="\\SystemRoot\\System32\\drivers\\uhci.sys" haven't downloaded the others.. no windows.. no way to test... and I guess making a restore point or backing up any system files with the same names which may exist first would be a plan?
OUCH !!!!! My head is starting to hurt........... How do I access %systemroot%\system32\drivers Can I just leave usbdevtree.exe on the desktop ? Another question: why would I want to stop the usb driver in the dos box ? Told you I was dumb !!! LOL
It's a driver.. you have to put it where it will run. so %systemroot% usually is C:\windoze\system32 (that's how malware is so effective.. because everything goes in there and can be accessed just as easily by a little script to copy a file in and then register it.. actually just like that XD) .. look for system32 and shove it in there.. then it needs to be regsitered so the dozy OS knows it exists. I thought the readme files were clear enough .. that seems like a normal way to start and stop a driver which has no hotplug detection. Once installed start the driver.. plug in the camera and see if it pops up in the rest of your drives as a mass storage device.. if not wait a minute and stop/start the driver again with the camera connected.. still fail?.. try a different one of the group.. each time following the instructions.
Ah ha !! That makes things a little clearer. I haven't read the info yet as I didn't open anything I'd downloaded until I heard from you again. The way you explain it now makes perfect sense. Thank you so much. I shall try it now and report back later.
Well, I tried !!! I followed the instructions to the letter but all I acheived was the blue screen of death, a sudden closedown of the PC and an error report for Microsoft. Very entertaining but not too good for downloading photos....lol. I have had a look in all of the downloads now and they are all very similar in their instructions so I haven't tried any more of them. The uhci.sys is a common theme amongst them all and this I think is where my problem arose. Still, it was worth a shot.
That's as far as I can go realistically.. I don't have any way to test these drivers here. Really that's why people like me don't use M$ stuff.. way too proprietary.. no drivers means completely that.. and no real way to do anything about it. this is similar to how I would attack it.. and had great success in the past with all kinds of strange cameras. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/01/06/digicam.html
I did a heap more searching and possibly came up with something... the camera really should just detect as a usb mass storage device. I found this interesting bit of info... different device but same problem. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-17852_35_0.html and following my "still a generic xp problem" attack .. http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?p=653698 The second one looks most hopeful .. give both a shot, because as long as one works who cares.. we just want the pictures of the trip yeah?
*giggles* .. well I did work out how to patch a wii iso on irc one night in about 20 minutes... just by looking at the files I was given and the info I had.. Interesting things drivers.. I would have this silly camera working by now here.. even if it meant trying about 200 different generic webcam/stills combi camera drivers.. bound to be one of the "made in china" things with the same chipset out there somewhere XD
Varnull, you are a lovely lady for spending so much time on my problem and I thank you for that. I tried both of the suggestions you made but neither of them worked for me. I even tried opening the camera to gain access to the board to try to see the chipset numbers but they are not numbered. Don't these chinese engineers have small fingers, there were 8 screws and all of them were tiny....lol, what a job !!! I'm seriously considering joining the Bratz web site just to beg for anyone who has got the driver to share it.
I have searched and searched.. when things don't work as they should it starts to bug me until I find a fix. Have you thought about posting this same problem on some mainstream digital photography forums? I would be tempted to try http://forums.cnet.com/5204-7593_102-0.html?forumID=58 Somebody somewhere must have had the same problem and found a cure.
That last idea might be worthy of pursuit, I've been checking boards left and right and cannot seem to find a good solution for your driver, I thought I found one, but the link was dead, go figure. Don't give up just yet, we may stumble on something just yet.
The problem isn't with a driver for the stills part of the camera.. that's standard 8mb's of sdram built in.. should autodetect like a chinese mp3 player or any other sd card based device. I still think theres something slightly wrong with the xp hotplug implementation somewhere.
I'm still working on this.. because it's bugging me now... http://cablehell.co.uk/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t87987.html - proof you are not alone Apparently others have noted it's actually a DF Series Digital Camera which originates from a company called Mito-Tech .. no matter how far I did I always come back to them.. and their download software page doesn't have a download.. so I guess I have to get sneaky. http://www.mito-tech.com/mito_eng/driver/df338b_368_369/ReadMe.txt please feel free to send me a gift if this works XD ↓↓↓↓ driver download link http://translate.google.co.uk/trans...&prev=/search?q=df338.zip&hl=en&safe=off&sa=G the file is clean.. I downloaded it myself.. if your comp with all it's antivirus and junk doesn't like that link shout me and I will upload it somewhere ./ My buddy told you I was very sneaky XD not serious actually.. a couple of the successfully rescued pics of london will do
