I just bought a PV-143 4 port capture card from bluecherry. I couldn't find good config directions in the wiki. If you all would be kind enough to help me figure out how to get this thing working i'll go and write it up as I bet that lots of people will want this card (it's the cheap one linked from the front page).
Please let me know if any other info is required and i'll post it right-quick.
Thanks a lot!
Problem:
Source is red, and the logs show the capture daemons crashing (can be posted if necessary). I'm not getting anything from the camera feeds.
modprobe.conf
I've been googling around and see varied and conflicting advice as to configuration options to put in modprobe.conf. Mostly "card=x" and "tuner=y". I'm not sure what to put here if anything. I've tried each of the following two lines (not at the same time) (i use "sudo update-modules" after each change)...
options bttv card=77
options bttv card=105
Linux: Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty"
Capture Card: ProVideo PV-143
Screenshot of monitor general tab

Screenshot of monitor source tab

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lspci
00:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
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dmesg | grep "bttv"
[ 38.493510] bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
[ 38.493518] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
[ 38.493586] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
[ 38.493643] bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:06.0, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfb001000
[ 38.493680] bttv0: detected: Provideo PV143A [card=105], PCI subsystem ID is aa00:1430
[ 38.493686] bttv0: using: ProVideo PV143 [card=105,autodetected]
[ 38.493724] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
[ 38.494213] bttv0: using tuner=-1
[ 38.494217] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
[ 38.494994] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
[ 38.495770] bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
[ 38.496574] bttv0: registered device video0
[ 38.496601] bttv0: registered device vbi0
[ 38.496620] bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
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zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v
Video Capabilities
Name: BT878 video (ProVideo PV143)
Type: 171
Can capture
Can tune
Overlay onto frame buffer
Can clip
Scalable
Video Channels: 4
Audio Channels: 0
Maximum Width: 924
Maximum Height: 576
Minimum Width: 48
Minimum Height: 32
Window Attributes
X Offset: 0
Y Offset: 0
Width: 320
Height: 240
Picture Attributes
Palette: 4 - 24bit RGB
Colour Depth: 24
Brightness: 32768
Hue: 32768
Colour :32768
Contrast: 32768
Whiteness: 0
Channel 0 Attributes
Name: Composite0
Channel: 0
Flags: 2
Channel has audio
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 0 - PAL
Channel 1 Attributes
Name: Composite1
Channel: 1
Flags: 2
Channel has audio
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 0 - PAL
Channel 2 Attributes
Name: Composite2
Channel: 2
Flags: 2
Channel has audio
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 0 - PAL
Channel 3 Attributes
Name: Composite3
Channel: 3
Flags: 2
Channel has audio
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 0 - PAL