I own a accer aspire 5315-2153 PC, can i download video from my 8mm video camera onto the PC or use the PC to transfer video from the video camera onto a DVD. MY pc does have a S-Video port.

no feet in 8mm
roughly 8mm is 1/3 of an inch or 3/8 "

You should still have a mini-jack to phono cable with 3 plugs R/ W/ Y? You can either connect to a tabletop video recorder or find a suitable computer accessory:- the Video - USB Capture
Video USB Capture PC MAC is an example. Check if it works with XP first!

If you have time, you would project your film onto a screen, and use a video camera to capture the show. Likely, you will get rather poor quality.
When professionally done, each frame is captured separately and made into a video. Better quality, but it takes a bunch of equipment that's expensive.

Probably a missing driver for the camera .

For VISTA try one of these 2




http://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/Driver/Camera/Camera_Suyin_1.0.0.8_Vistax86.zip?acerid=633638857789768592&Step1=NOTEBOOK&Step2=ASPIRE&Step3=ASPIRE%205050&OS=V10&LC=bg&BC=ACER&SC=EMEA_10

http://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/Driver/Camera/Camrea_Bison_1.0.0.14_Vistax86.zip?acerid=633638857782748727&Step1=NOTEBOOK&Step2=ASPIRE&Step3=ASPIRE%205050&OS=V10&LC=bg&BC=ACER&SC=EMEA_10


For XP try these one

http://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/Driver/Camera/Camrea_Suyin_5.7.8.003_XPx86.zip?acerid=633638858076023087&Step1=NOTEBOOK&Step2=ASPIRE&Step3=ASPIRE%205050&OS=X02&LC=bg&BC=ACER&SC=EMEA_10

http://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/Driver/Camera/Camrea_Bisoncam_5.0.0.10_XPx86.zip?acerid=633638858071811168&Step1=NOTEBOOK&Step2=ASPIRE&Step3=ASPIRE%205050&OS=X02&LC=bg&BC=ACER&SC=EMEA_10


Can't be sure wich one will work . It depends on camera type .

Hello Ron,
Well that is like you say an old camera, mind you 8mm is still far the best and safest way to store your valued films as it has kept the data on those tapes longer than any DVD ever did, remember unlike we thought 10 years ago a DVD only has around 8 to 10 years life span, we are finding CD & DVD productions that are over 8 years old just wont play any longer.
Kodak put a report on the net 7 years ago that they found even some quite costly DVD recorded media had gone blank and refused to play after a very short time in storage.
I think you ought to look around Ebay, find a nice HI8 digital camera, put your loved tapes in that, plug the new Firewire cable into the camera, and your PC and download your treasured items to another media like DVD.
Keep your 8mm tapes in a draw safe though because they will out-live all DVD recordings I can honestly say that.
David

To the best of my knowledge 8mm VTR's have not been available for some time now. On the other hand there are plenty of Hi8 cameras and players available after market. eBay is a great source. Keep in mind that Hi8 cameras and decks will also play standard 8mm video tapes.
There are also many video tape transfer services that will transfer your 8mm tapes to DVD or other formats of your choice. Just Google "videotape transfer service"

Here you have a video tutorial:

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Clarification Request by welcomejee, posted on Sep 01, 2008 please mention what dvd recorder you have or you want to transfer movie files on PC hard disk.

only sony really supported 8mm look for any trv model cam on ebay etc and make sure you tapes were hi 8mm-not digital 8-digital 8 won't play on reg 8mm cam-need to get model that supports both formats then-trv480-look at tapes and if they say digital and/or hi 8 they may have been in digital and get the 480 it will work with both types