Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez has released a new version of Helios, a Firewire stack for MorphOS. You can download the achive here. The archive also includes SDK files for third-party developers who are interested to create applications that utilize the Helios library.

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The developer writes:
"This release handles isochronous mode in receive mode. So I've made a small code example to show how to use that. This example is useful also because it permit to capture the broadcast audio/video stream from a camcorder supporting the IEC 61883 protocol and giving MPEG2-TS or DV format. The code is located in SDK/Examples/, file get61883.c. Compile it using command 'make get61883' in its directory if you've installed the MorphOS SDK.

For those who are either unwilling or incapable to compile it, a binary is available at: http://www.yomgui.fr/projects/get61883

First thing to do before launching it is to execute FWInspect before to let it enumerate devices and their capabilities. then get61883

Simple usage: get61883 [-dv] output
(-dv is optional and switch into DV format (MPEG2-TS by default). output is the output file where the stream will be written. CTRL-E to finish the write at any moment. The file is written using the asyncio library.)"