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generic 4 port bt878 based card
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teddy
Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:05 pm
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 generic 4 port bt878 based card I brought an old capture card back to life with Zoneminder. The card is a 4 port capture card with one bt878 chip. It is a very generic card. It originally shipped with a computer running win98. It had been a long since it worked. Anyway, setup was pretty simple. Each camera uses a different channel on /dev/video0. The chip splits its 768x480 resolution into four quadrants. So each camera gets a quarter of the available resolution, or 384x240. I can get 4 fps for each camera, which is fine for survielence footage.
The color looks really nice, too.
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| Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:12 pm |
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zoneminder
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Joined: Wed Jul 09, 2003 3:07 pm
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Location: Bristol, UK
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For the record, do you know what model of card it is?
Phil
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| Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:42 pm |
  
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teddy
Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:05 pm
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The card is generic.
lspci shows this:
lspci -n shows this:
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| Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:36 pm |
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semotta
Joined: Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:39 am
Posts: 20
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Re: generic 4 port bt878 based card According to your 'lspci -n' I have the same card! Would you mind sharing some configuration information you've used, like bttv options?
How did you do that? You mean card sends four inputs splitted into a single chanel?
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| Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:52 am |
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philipt
Joined: Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:29 am
Posts: 26
Location: North East England
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This sounds like the card I use - got 3 of them in my box. It's the GrandTec Multi Capture Card, BTTV card option = 77. I get them from CPC for about £20+vat when they are on offer, £35 full price.
I've just rebuilt my system and am struggling to get the 2 colour cameras I've got to work - the B&W ones are fine but the colour ones are just giving a white screen - it's very strange because they were fine before the rebuild. The cameras are a bargain from CPC too - colour, waterproof, with IR illumination (limited range though) for only £45+vat.
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Philip
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| Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:04 pm |
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krzys31337
Joined: Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:43 pm
Posts: 65
Location: Poland,Warsaw N 52°09'10" E 20°55'09"
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Just for reference and quick google searching:
This card  
More pics: http://pancake.sggw.waw.pl/~hunter24/bttv/
Card is beeing sold (new ones) on polish e-bay like service (namely allegro.pl) for 140-150 PLN (price with shiping to Poland and with all Taxes ie. VAT)
It means 37-38 Euro or around 44-45 USD. (As of 2005-07-14)
NOTE: remember about card=77 (modprobe option) and try to disable ACPI in you BIOS. Each card should have it's own interrupt.
And lspci:  | | | | Code: 02:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
02:05.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
02:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
02:07.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
02:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 7
Memory at f2100000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
02:05.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 7
Memory at f2101000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
02:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at f2102000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
02:07.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at f2103000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
02:05.0 Class 0400: 109e:036e (rev 11)
02:05.1 Class 0480: 109e:0878 (rev 11)
02:07.0 Class 0400: 109e:036e (rev 11)
02:07.1 Class 0480: 109e:0878 (rev 11)
/proc/interrupts:
CPU0
5: 250101 XT-PIC bttv1
7: 257771 XT-PIC bttv0
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| Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:09 pm |
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Fitch
Joined: Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:01 pm
Posts: 101
Location: Hartlepool, U.K.
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If CPC sold you this, then I believe it to be the AEI Technologies Big Brother Stealth Au4 card.
Would only work in Windows XP and even that seemed to stop after SP2 and various other security patches was downloaded.
The software was a heap of junk, and the card a difficult beggar to get working. I am still struggling with 4 black screens at the mo.
Can the info here help the people who devise what to stick in bttv.conf?
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| Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:12 am |
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whatboy
Joined: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:31 pm
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I have two Hauppauge ImpactVCB Model 558 and gives me the same data with
I have 6 (3 on each card, yes I know I can use all 4, but 2fps sucks) anolog cameras @ 740x480 at 3.5 fps (bearable sucks)
I'm thinking of getting rid of this crapcards and buy me a 120/240 fps
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/7752/loadmonth.jpg
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| Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:37 am |
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Fitch
Joined: Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:01 pm
Posts: 101
Location: Hartlepool, U.K.
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Thanks for the info.
It still doesn't do it for me.
I think I'm missing something here...
lspci -n
05:01.0 0400: 109e:036e (rev 11)
05:01.1 0480: 109e:0878 (rev 11)
I do remember reading about a windows program that would scan the card and cameras, I think it was from Sourceforge, but I don't know its name.
I have a Windows computer available and could use it to find out about the card. If anybody knows it's name, do you think it would be good enough to solve this problem?
I installed xawtv, just for a laugh, of course it works, doesn't it! All 4 cameras can be brougt up one by one if I use "Capture - grabdisplay" I'm so close, I can smell it! Just haven't got the experience to do anything about it.
I do have pictures of the card, but don't quite know how to insert them here...
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| Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:15 pm |
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Brainer
Joined: Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:53 am
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Are you talking about BTSpy, from the BT878 WDM driver site?
http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/custom.html
Brainer
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| Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:48 am |
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Fitch
Joined: Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:01 pm
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Location: Hartlepool, U.K.
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Thanks for that! 
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