I have to confess that I don’t actually use FireWire, nor have I ever used it to transfer anything. I just thought the port looked cool…
How do you use firewire on modem operating systems? I need to know.
FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
JustRalph@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You might be bi
FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah, I’m not. Besides, what?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s fair. Thanks for being honest, at least.
datavoid@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I bought a PCIe card for FireWire slots, there might be a usb converter though. On windows it worked out of the box, and I used WinDV for importing video.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Same, when I was using it. It was just like USB: plug and pray.
tal@olio.cafe 2 weeks ago
If it’s Linux, sounds like it should just work out of box, at least for a while longer.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-to-support-firewire-until-2029
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I’ve got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).
I’m just passing a FireWire PCI card through to a VM though. Though with how old the box is, it doesnt really need to be a VM. Thats a whole different discussion though.
I had some FireWire audio interfaces too, 8ch and 16ch, but I got rid of those a while back. I’m sure someone’s making use of it though! Probably the m-audio delta 1010 I sold too, I think they are still going for a few hundred each despite being so long in the tooth.
tal@olio.cafe 2 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s a thought…though honestly, unless whatever someone is doing requires real-time processing and adding latency is a problem, they can probably pass it through some other old device that can speak both Firewire and something else.
That doesn’t have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.
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Oh, I’m thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
No I’m talking about the PCI card, just commenting on the longevity of some devices. I know two people still using FireWire for their interfaces in spare kit (RME fire faces), which got me thinking of some of my old kit I’ve replaced like the delta1010.
These days I’m mostly pushing dante around