It seems there is very interresting library available at http://www.linux1394.org/. Go for libiec61883: <quote> After many months of hard work, the first release of libiec61883 is now available. This library provides third generation media reception and transmission for DV, MPEG2-TS, and AMDTP (audio and music) using only raw1394 and not the complicated setup and maintenance of other kernel modules and their /dev nodes. This is not just an early development release. It is already quite capable and robust. Already, MythTV 0.17 supports MPEG2-TS, FreeBob is using AMDTP, and a soon-to-be-released dvgrab 2.0 is being used in a heavy, 24/7 production environment. We encourage all developers and applications to migrate to this library as support for dv1394, amdtp, and cmp modules are being phased out as well as DV and MPEG2-TS applications of video1394. NOTE: libiec61883 requires libraw1394 1.2.0. </quote>
Created attachment 57346 [details] libiec61883 ebuild I've been experimenting with this, based heavily on the libraw1394-1.2.0 ebuild. It installs fine, but since my cable company has begun encrypting everything coming out of my cable box, I have no video source to test it with. If someone can verify this actually works, then the mythtv ebuilds should be able to enable firewire support.
Will have a look at this on sunday most likely.
Hey, alright it's sunday! (Not quite the sunday I had in mind though). I'm looking at this now for reals...
In the tree. Thanks for your patience.
