Conexant B878A

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:11 pm

yeah that is odd as thats a single chip card

rockerBOO · Post by **rockerBOO** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:46 pm

I am back

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Problem this time, is i guess i did something wrong but it seemed to work until now. Now i have a problem where it is looking for the tuner info, but I am not sure what to set this tuner to. Is there a good one to set the tuner to, to have it work?

Thanks

rockerBOO · Post by **rockerBOO** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:46 pm

Sorry double post

rockerBOO · Post by **rockerBOO** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 5:19 pm

Video still not working, it has been 2 days now and i still do not know what to do. I have done the following.

took out the tuner part from /etc/modprobe.conf

When i do this i get a blank black video. If i remove the camera it goes to blue.

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# tvtime
Running tvtime 1.0.1.
Reading configuration from /usr/local/etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
videoinput: Can't get tuner info: Invalid argument
videoinput: Can't get tuner info: Invalid argument

This error keeps coming up not matter what I do to the tuner part of the modprobe.conf

Any help? Thanks!

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:16 pm

If its going blue then tvtime can see the card ok, have you checked your settings in tv time ie tv standard and resolution etc.

rockerBOO · Post by **rockerBOO** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:08 pm

I set it to NTSC which seems normal. I tried it on a PAL setting and it did the lower half in a flicker, which is what i notice when i try and play PAL on a NTSC dvd player.

So as far as I can see the video seems right, but it is still complaining about the tuner info or whatever, and I am not sure what to do for that. This happens when I try and switch video composites. It will say that the tuner info could not be read, which is why I think it has to be the tuner.

rockerBOO · Post by **rockerBOO** » Mon May 15, 2006 5:40 pm

Ok now almost a month later and fiddling like crazy I have not been table to get it to work. I currently do not have network on the linux box but will shortly, so any outputs will have to wait.

I currently have a blue screen for all 4 inputs. I insert the 1 camera into the slot and see it works and I get a black screen. When i remove it it goes back to blue. From what I have been reading is that blue means the camera is ready for input. I am pretty sure the camera's work as they were before this came up. Could there be something else coming up that I do not see?

I am also continuing to get these errors.

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# tvtime
Running tvtime 1.0.1.
Reading configuration from /usr/local/etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
videoinput: Can't get tuner info: Invalid argument
videoinput: Can't get tuner info: Invalid argument

Any help will be appreciated.

bamatuxfan · Post by **bamatuxfan** » Thu May 18, 2006 12:41 pm

Hello,
If this is the card I believe it to be, (same picture) it was sold on e-bay for $9.99 US.
These are shipped out of Texas. I have also seen the cards in the UK by seller Owlight, ( I think).
I ordered this card and it did work with my linux box.Chanel 0 workled fine and one other channel worked for a while. I never got all four channels working. The longer I used the card(two weeks) the more channels I seem to lose. Thought it might be BNC connectors so I changed them, no help. I finally hooked up my 4 cameras to a multiplexer on and old vcr system and all worked...So I surmize; I got what I paid for. The experiance was valuabe and I didn't lose my shirt trying out the DVR I put together.
Now if I could get the motion detection configured properly I would be fine...but thats another story.
Hope your luck is better than mine..I decided to cut my losses and buy a new card...for more than 9.99 US.