RW-1120P - 16 port card from Maplin with Bt878A

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johndpar
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RW-1120P - 16 port card from Maplin with Bt878A

Post by johndpar »

The N95FQ from Maplin has 4 Bt878A

Anyone tried one of these with Zoneminder

at £129.99 it looks to be quite interesting, but... will it work?

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Many thanks

John
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johndpar
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It works - at least in xawtv!!

Post by johndpar »

Well I went ahead and got one of these.

It actually has just 4 Bt878a which each handle 4 channels of vid and 1 audio.

Popped it in a machine, dmesg shows the video0-3 get created ok using default card=0 config, and xawtv shows video from all channels.

[ update ] card=77,77,77,77 works even better - all 16 inputs show as Composite.

I've not tried audio yet, and I would like to get the digital i/o connector working to use as trigger inputs and outputs, but so far I am happy.

They also do a card with 8 vid 8 audio and I think this as 8 chips so my guess is that you would get full frame rate on all 8 channels, but it is £250 ish vs the £130 for this one.

I'll update this when I find out more.

Regards
John
John Parker
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