I'm running Ubuntu 10.10, ZM 1.24.2, and have a Connexant 8x8 BT878A chip installed - (product page: http://www.camsecure.co.uk/CamsecureBT878aPCICard.html). It's got 8 inputs, and currently I only have 4 cameras installed. I followed a guide from the wiki on how to install ZM onto my machine, along with all the other components such as Apache, MySQL, etc.
First Issue: I tested my cards inputs with XawTV and my only success has been pulling a grayscale image, my cameras are all colour cameras and PAL. After playing around with several capture formats and palette configurations, I realised that I got no image in any format, that was not set to the 'GREY' palette. This would also be listed red in the console to confirm no input, as soon as I changed the palette to grey and hit save, the entry turned green and the monitor showed an image. I tried presets too, but they failed. I must have done something right to be able to pull an image, but with any of the colour palettes selected neither XawTV or ZM could retrieve an image. The best configuration without a distorted picture or anything other problem besides being grayscale, was to have the settings set to V4L v.2, PAL Nc, GREY.*
This led me to believe that I need to just change the driver configuration, when I bought this card it came with instructions which stated to add the options lines to the bttv.conf file under /etc/modprobe.d/, I didn't do this as I was told beforehand that this version of Ubuntu can understand and communicate with these cards without the need for that configuration file. Anyway, with no luck with any other combination, I made a bttv.conf (with sudo nautilus) file as it didn't exist and entered the following as stated in the instructions:
I rebooted, found a new problem (which i'll state below*) but after resolving, came to the same result not being able to get any colour images. I deleted the file (using sudo again) because it did not change any notable variables.options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102 radio=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 tuner=4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2 full_luma_range=1 coring=1 autoload=0
*Second Issue: When I rebooted, logged in and started up ZM, and after waiting a few moments, I discovered that all my monitor entries were showing up in red, waiting a little longer maybe for ZM to pick up nothing happened. The settings that pulled the image remained in place, and no settings were lost during reboot but I worked out that to get an image back after reboot (i have tried several times and is extremely annoying) is to change the settings for each monitor, (although sometimes as soon as i changed one monitor, the rest picked up).
The only combination to get an image was to change the Capture method to V4L v.1, along with the Device Format changing it to PAL and the Capture Palette to Grey. This resulted with an output looking like this:
(screenshot taken from a remote session of ZM).Then I basically had (and still have) to revert the settings back to what they were, V4L v.2, PAL-Nc, GREY to get a clear (grayscale) image. This is the result after changing:
(again, screenshot taken from a remote session of ZM).It makes no sense as to why I have no do it in that specific order to pull an image. I really don't know what else I can do to try and sort this out. This isn't my main priority though, as I don't intend to restart the machine regularly but if someone has a solution, that'd be great. My aim right now is to get colour images.
Ubuntu / Linux is my third OS, and I'm no ubuntu expert, so a little explanation will be required but I am good with computers and programming (windows & mac). I hope I'm not asking for too much and I hope I explained this thoroughly enough and that it makes sense, if you have any queries just ask. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance,
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