Terje,

I can say with 100% certainty that here we have never tested FIREWIRE but I did notice that the CV contributors did add "ifdef FIREWIRE" in a few of the .C programs which conceivably means that it can be built with the capability. However, I guess I do not understand why you would want this option since you stated:

"The reason is my 10 years old FireWire based DV/HDV recorder seemingly is dead."

Recently I successfully was able to do: "Transfer VHS/DVD Media or Video8/Hi8 Tapes into CINELERRA-GG" though.

Does this mean that Firewire/dv capture already is supported or optional can be configured?

it was not tested in ages .....

guess try to install all -dev version of libraries and look at output of cingg's configure .... then connect device and try to set capture device to iec* ....