My father bought a DV Camcoder that have a 1394 in/out digital port where we can output to a computer that have a 1394 in/out port... so I have to buy such PCI card... I'm in trouble to choose such card... no idea which is better, can anyone help me? http://www.firewire-1394.com/pyro-pci-64.htm http://www.firewire-1394.com/ads-pyro-1394-port.htm here is from manufactor: http://www.adstech.com/products/API300/intro/API300intro.asp?pid=API300 http://www.adstech.com/products/API311/intro/API311intro.asp?pid=API311 10ks franz-
Tell us more about your or father's PC. I did bought the one to my father's PC on VIA chipset for the same purpose. It works fine. There are no difference is it PCI or PCI-64 for DV camcoder. Realy.
Its a PIII 800mhz with 512MB RAM Well, the basics diff are: 3 outside ports x 2 outside + 1 inside 64bits x PCI 2.1 (you said dont matter) Texas Instrument chip(wtf is this?) x in-sync support (realtime editing) I got info about a 3-port (VIA chipset) card at firewire-1394.com (http://www.firewire-1394.com/firewire-3-port-pci-card-fb4103.htm)
The basic diff is a price Ask yourself what do U need: just FW ports or FW + USB + inside/outside additional ports. My father's PC is Athlon 750 + 126Mb memory. That card I did bought did fits his PC well. He don't need any more. Believe me, 64 bits transfer or 32 doesn't really matter for U and your father. FW is able to transfer up to 400/800Mbits (depends on version) per second but MiniDV format needs only 25Mbits. Texas Instruments is a old and famous chipmaker like Intel or Motorola. If U can buy FW card for 50$ - do it. Card based on VIA chipset is cheaper but sometime someone expecting troubles with them (I didn't). BTW, WinXP don't need drivers for FW cards. AFAIK all other WIN versions don't need drivers too.
