*chop* > As I see it the main problem with building a custom low cost board for > this is that we need to have a PCI bus, since we need to get 30 Mbps > across. Therefore it might be easier just to refurbish some old hardware > that we can get for free. *chop* speaking of which, even the G3 generation macs seem to have enough oomph to cope with passing on DV. Most of them have a supported firewire controller too. They are also dirt cheap. Dave