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+This library is an implementation of IEC 61883, part 1 (CIP, plug registers
+and CMP), part 2 (DV-SD), part 4 (MPEG2-TS), and part 6 (AMDTP). Outside of
+IIDC, nearly all FireWire multimedia devices use IEC 61883 protocols.
+
+The libiec61883 library provides a higher level API for streaming DV, MPEG-2
+and audio over Linux IEEE 1394. This includes both reception and transmission.
+It uses the new "rawiso" API of libraw1394, which transparently provides
+mmap-ed DMA for efficient data transfer.
+
+This requires libraw1394 (available at SlackBuilds.org).