PCIE-1394A 4-Ports 1394A PCIE FireWire 400 Expansion Card for Windows Desktop PCs, 3X 6Pin and 1X 4Pin 1394A 400Mbps Ports, with 4Pin-6Pin 1394A Cables and Low Profile Bracket

PC ONLY If you are here cause you want to digitize old tapes then you are about to make your like 10x easier. Truly plug and play with my PC motherboard, even for those who are tech-handicap or intimidated by PC parts. It comes with clear instructions pamphlet (could use some better pictures though) and even a FireWire to USB A wire. Additionally there are plenty of YouTube videos on this item that provides more details on troubleshooting and what software to use with this hardware.

This type of card is what Grok recommended I buy as an inexpensive way to capture a bunch of old home movies from a Sony Digital8 camera. The iLink port on the camera is a firewire port, and this card is the firewire adapter for my (fairly new) PC. Also bought a 6 foot cable to make sure it would reach from back of PC to the camera on the desk (this card comes with a similar cable as the one I needed, but much shorter). This card along with free software WinDV and I'm now transferring those old tapes digitally to my AVI clips on my PC without loss of quality.

I got this LinksTek MiniDV card for my computer to transfer my huge collection of tapes. I have a Lenovo tower and a Sony DCR HC32 camera with a power base. This allows me to use MiniDV to transfer. When installed it did not automatically sense the card. I did have to install some K-Lite Codec to get my windows 11 to find it. I also downloaded WinDV 1.2.3 to do the actual transfers. I used the included cable which is a 6 pin to 4 pin. It did not would for me in either port. I have a 4 pin to 4 pin cable so ai tried that and bingo. Make sure you click the checkmark next to the capture button on WinDV so when you click capture it controls your camera. I suggest creating a folder for each tape and just let it do it's thing. Any breaks in the tape it will just make a new video in the folder. Please note that you will need lots of storage depending on how many tapes you have. Each full 1 hour tape is 13 to 14 gigs of data. Works great and I am a quarter of the way thru my tapes. It lots of fun to see some of these that haven't been watched since they were shot. Enjoy!

Came quickly, went in easy, works well so far - only a couple of months. I'll repost if any problems come up

Why did you pick this product vs others?: Given that I am trying to convert my +25 year old Mini-DV tapes to digital files, the fact that this even works is quite remarkable. There are two aspects to conversion; the hardware and the software; this hardware worked quite easily and allowed the software access to DC VCR and in this respect, worked flawlessly, it is the software side that is a bit wonky.

I've used this card to transfer over 25 hours of footage, using a Sony DCR-TRV250 camcorder as the source device and the free WinDV app on Windows to record avi files, which I then transcode to a compressed format using Handbrake. This card was compatible with multiple Windows 10 installations of mine on a plug-and-play basis (i.e., without needing to install any drivers), and has so far worked without any flaws. Disclaimer: This product comes with a cable, but I have not tested it since I already had a FireWire cable paired with my camcorder. I've also only used the 6-pin slot on the card and have not tested the 4-pin slot.

Arrived on time. Works as advertised. Enabled me to transfer my old miniDV tapes to AVI format.

Easy to install, worked the first time and seemed to handle whatever I threw at it. I was expecting it to be more of a pain in the butt so that was a relief. Update 5 months later: I'm saddened to have to reduce this rating to 1 star. About 3 months after I first reviewed this product, I started noticing a decreasing in the speed that my data was transferring - I ran some tests and instead of getting around 200mb/s, I was getting around 30mb/s write speed and roughly double that read speed. If that had been the only issue, I probably would have only dropped it to a 3 star rating - this is a budget controller and most likely just didn't have the bandwidth for the sort of heavy use that I put it through. I went ahead and bit the bullet and bought an enterprise class controller at 20x the price of this one - I wasn't even upset, was just going to migrate this card to another computer that doesn't have the same workload and go about my day. It was when I started moving the data off of the existing drives so I could migrate it to a new array - it became incredibly slow during sustained read operations which should be the fastest operation - and every couple of hours one of the drives would go offline and I'd have to reboot the computer. This made the data migration a tedious exercise in figuring out what files were copied successfully and then starting a new migration from that file on - and just generally made me question the reliability of the card. To be fair to the card - if you are just looking to have a couple drives and not a heavy user, and if you do not want any features, it isn't a terrible card for $15 - you could do a lot worse, but I bet for $10-20 more you could also do a lot better.

Does the job! bought this to use in my asus za690 pro gaming motheroard to capture video from my sony DCR_TRV24e handycam Hi8 tapes. Drivers were already installed in device manager on windows 10. Had to use virtualdub2 using 32bit as 64bit doesn't show any video but the kit does what you need it to. delivery was expected for the 15th but arrived 5 days early which was great. would give 5 stars but the box packaging had a tear on it and the seal was broken as if someone had opened it.

This adapter does exactly what it’s supposed to do, without any fuss. We used it on an old Windows 2000 machine to keep some legacy equipment running in a virtualized setup, and it worked right away. No drivers to hunt down, no weird configuration — just plug it in and it works. Build quality feels solid and reliable, which is especially important when you’re dealing with older hardware that can be picky. It’s one of those products you forget about after installing, and that’s the best compliment I can give. If you need something dependable for legacy or specialty setups, this is a great choice.

Funciona perfectamente para mi iPod 2 generación, solo se instala y detecta sin problemas en mi Itunes el ipod, muy contento con el producto! Adquiri un ipod classic 1 generacion e igual sin problema lo detecta

Fácil de instalar. Mi computadora con Win 10 la detecto e instalo drivers sin problema. El cable incluido agrega valor, ya que no tuve que comprar otro aparte. Todo funciona como debe.

Trying to capture video from an old 2004 mini dv camcorder through firewire can be quite difficult these days but thanks to this capture card it was a breeze. I installed it into a 2014 ex business computer with windows 10 and it worked right away. It has a molex power connector that is only needed for high power use connections which basic dv capture does not need. That is a good thing because the computer I am using does not have a spare power connecter for it. I am currently half way through capturing about 50 camcorder tapes and have not had any issues with this card.