Videonics Mixer and Firewire - still a problem?

[mediaservant]

I searched and found one old thread, instead of bring back the ancient thread I wanted to make a fresh post and see if anything has been figured out with these mixers.

We recently purchased a lightly used sample of the Videonics MXproDV mixer and it is definitely a powerful - if not old - mixer.

When connecting the DV output to a firewire input on any "modern" PC with known good firewire cable/card it simply does not show up.

The old thread mentioned that videonics claimed their DV output will only work with 1 particular firewire card, is that really true?

Does anyone out there know of a way to make the DV output work with a modern garden variety firewire card?

TIA,

Cameron

[Paris MkVI]

I do not know about the compatibility issue here. But I do know of other situations where equipment manufacturers have specified Firewire cards with particular chipsets in them. If your card didn't meet the spec, the connection would not be reliable.

This was much more common some years ago - less so now.