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Newbie with Pico2000 and ClearOS

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:37 am
by speedamaster
hi,
I fail to get a video on my screen with an Pico2000 card.

In /etc/modprobe.conf I have

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options bttv card=77 tuner=4 radio=0 triton1=0 vsfx=0 autoload=0
dmesg|grep bttv gives

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bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bt878: waiting for bttv to get alive
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:05:04.0, irq: 74, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe8200000
bttv0: using: GrandTec Multi Capture Card (Bt878) [card=77,insmod option]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f360ff [init]
bttv0: using tuner=4
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
and dmesg|grep bt878 gives

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bt878: waiting for bttv to get alive
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
bt878_probe: card id=[0x0],[ <NULL> ] has DVB functions.
bt878(0): Bt878 (rev 17) at 05:04.1, irq: 74, latency: 32, memory: 0xe8201000
in the ZM console I added 2 monitors with
/dev/video and channels 0 and 1 PAL, rgb24, 320x240, Video4Linux1 and maxFPS 5.0

NO VIDEO....

any help?

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:21 pm
by Marcio
Change

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/dev/video
to

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/dev/video0

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:26 pm
by speedamaster
in /dev video is a link to video0, so this didn't help.....
anything else I could check?

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:00 pm
by bristoldave
He means change /dev/video to /dev/video0 in the ZM options :)

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:03 pm
by speedamaster
this is what I did. In ZM config for the monitor..... I just mentioned that anyway /dev/video is linked to /dev/video0 so it shouldn't make a difference if I have in ZM /dev/video of /dev/video0....
anyway.... not solved yet...... :-(

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:15 pm
by speedamaster
BTW: if I create a new monitor and press "probe" I get the error

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Unable to probe local cameras, status is '255'
zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v

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Error, failed to query crop capabilities /dev/video0: Invalid argument
/etc/zmdc.log gives

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30.12.2009 16:25:47.006907 zmdc[4657].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0]
30.12.2009 16:25:47.009300 zmdc[4657].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 09/12/30 16:25:47, pid = 15874]
30.12.2009 16:25:47.068048 zmdc[4657].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 255]

Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:48 pm
by speedamaster
No help out there?

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 4:47 am
by p.eldhose
speedamaster wrote:BTW: if I create a new monitor and press "probe" I get the error

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Unable to probe local cameras, status is '255'
zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v

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Error, failed to query crop capabilities /dev/video0: Invalid argument
/etc/zmdc.log gives

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30.12.2009 16:25:47.006907 zmdc[4657].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0]
30.12.2009 16:25:47.009300 zmdc[4657].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 09/12/30 16:25:47, pid = 15874]
30.12.2009 16:25:47.068048 zmdc[4657].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
me too having same problem .....
pls some body helppp...

Helping

Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:39 pm
by georgik
Hi, I was writing something about pico2000
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... highlight=

Maybe this helping you!

Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 6:42 pm
by bb99
Within ZM, if you don't specify /dev/video0 the source will turn red (not working) regardless of links. Just tested on working Fedora 12 box by creating link and changing source to /dev/video which resulted in broken capture. When using a capture card, ZM is married to the card, the camera can't be probed and the resolution, palette, format, etc, are determined by the card only so your source settings need to be based on the card output only.