I have an HP DV8 i7 running Windows 7 64 and a Sony HDR-HC5E. I have for 3 month tried to capture HDV using Windows Live Movie Maker, Sony PMB, Sony Vegas Studio platinum v8.0d and Coral x2. Someone suggest driver update (or downgrade to legacy driver), but nothing helped.
The solution for me was to purchase a ExpressCard with TI chipset (Lycom), disable the HP 1394 port, and now everything works fine (except from the preinstalled Coral software, so it has been uninstalled).
Mikmac