activate Firewire ports?

[GregM]

Trying to download old DV files from my Sony VX1000 camcorder.

Although the (old) computer I am trying on has firewire plugs, Kubuntu will not see the Sony cam when I plug it in to the firewire port.

Is there something I have to activate or download to use these ports on 22.04?

[jglen490]

I looked in Synaptic, and there seems to be some firewire driver packages available. I don't have any firewire connections, so not sure which one(s) will work.

[GregM]

Thanks for that.
I got a Win10 to take a firewire card and it is working.
I just want to save these old video files so I don't lose them.

I do have a Blu-ray burner in this computer so it would be nice to be able to burn them to a Blu-ray disk for storage. Still trying to figure this out.
It would be great to find some authoring software to make chapters on a blu-ray disk and call them the file name.

[claydoh]

You might look at dvdstyler. Recent releases seem to support blu ray.
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https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php...ntu-22-04/amp/

You probably need huge amounts of free disk space, I'll guess. Burning may require a different app, but k3b should be able to do that part

[GregM]

Thanks!
I'll give it a whirl.