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Hello,

I just got one pico2000 for testing but I still have no cameras to test it

Anyway, "modprobe bttv" worked out-of-the-box, but using mplayer -tv driver=v4l2 tv:// I can just open one channel/input, how do I use other 3?

Phillip, The time tuner takes to change may be big, as you said, but you have 2 options yet: - Use 2 cards, when you record from one, you change the channel in the other, then when you stop recording from the first, the second will be available already. Imagine RISC pipelines. - Use only one card ...

Sorry, but I did mean the software support to it so using a multiplexer with 1/4 second interval between frames it would act like 4 independent cameras at 1fps each. The software would capture from one input (/dev/video0) but would report as 4 cameras in the interface.


Gustavo

Hello, It is possible to record multiple cameras from a single TV card? I mean, if I have 4 cameras, each one in its own channel (ch3=cam1, ch4=cam2, ...) or even only one channel that receives images from 4 cameras in sequence, 1sec between them (0sec=cam1, 1sec=cam2, 2sec=cam3, 3sec=cam4, 4sec ...