Hi,
We have made the legacy 1394 driver available to download for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 today. Please see the blog below and instruction on download/manual installation.
thank you,
Koichi Hirao [MSFT]
Windows 8.1 - Legacy Firewire Drivers
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Anonymous
Hello,
I need to use the legacy firewire drivers for my system.
Windows 8 does not have this driver anymore and it does not allow the installation of the driver files from a Windows 7 system due to driver signing.
The only way to get the driver to install is by enabling test mode and disabling something else. This results in a screen watermark.
Can Microsoft please provide a signed version of the Legacy driver? It would cure headaches for a big chunck of audio engineers who choose to use Windows.
Thanks
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Anonymous
2014-02-06T21:30:21+00:00 Windows 8 did not support Firewire, so I was unable to capture video from my Mini-DV camcorder to my PC like I could in Windows 7.
I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1.
Now I see my "Texas Intsruments 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller" in my Device Manager list. I can now capture video using my Firewire capture card in Premier Pro. So far so good.
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Anonymous
2014-02-06T21:55:03+00:00 Windows 8 does support firewire. You had a separate issue to the one this topic has been created for.
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Anonymous
2014-02-07T13:09:19+00:00 Windows 8 does support firewire. You had a separate issue to the one this topic has been created for.
FYI: Windows 8 never supported Firewire.
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Anonymous
2014-02-13T09:46:20+00:00 Windows 8 did not support Firewire, so I was unable to capture video from my Mini-DV camcorder to my PC like I could in Windows 7.
I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1.
Now I see my "Texas Intsruments 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller" in my Device Manager list. I can now capture video using my Firewire capture card in Premier Pro. So far so good.
I have Windows 8.1 64 bit. My Firewire Card with TI Chip does not work (the Camcorder is recognized, but no video is transfered). Are you using 32 bit or 64 bit Win 8.1?
Björn