Firewire support for latest distribution

[Peabodyking]

Hi! I am wondering if anyone there has a project going on to support the 
firewire Dazzle Hollywood DV bridge in Debian Linux? I strongly demand support 
for that and movie encoding and compressions. Once I have that support, I can 
totally do away with windows altogether. I am a student and a beginning 
programmer so I would not have the time or the ability to write my own programs 
like that yet. Please let me know if you guys are working on that stuff. Thanks
sam