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KWorld KW-SEC400A works great. Uses bttv driver.

The 8 port version of this card works too but so far I can only access the first 4 ports.

I don't know this card at all but have you tried using channel 1 on /dev/video0-3 for the last four ports? This is how it works on other 8 port cards.

Phil,

zoneminder wrote:I don't know this card at all but have you tried using channel 1 on /dev/video0-3 for the last four ports? This is how it works on other 8 port cards.

Phil,

Well, on both the 4 and the 8 port - I only see one video device, "/dev/video0". I use channels 0-3 for the first 4 ports and they work great. On the 8 port card I've tried using channels 4-7 but no luck.

(I should mention these two different cards are in two different machines. Running Mandrake from the live CD)

For anyone interested, www.computergeeks.com cary these cards off and on. If they're out of them when you check - Check back later because they get them in often.

If the picture is accurate on the compgeeks site:

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?in ... 0A&cat=VID

I suspect that you will have a difficult time getting ports 5-8 to work. It appears that this card only has 1 BT878 chip. The chip has 4 inputs, and that's how manufacturers implement 4 ports using only one chip. If they are using only 1 chip with 8 ports, they are implementing their own proprietary switching, with 2 channels going to each input.

Is that card more performant than the GrandXguard or is it basically the same thing ?
it seems like they both have just 1 chip, but from the specs, it seem like the KWorld gets better fps, does it have better switching ?

Any info on the card performance vs the other ?

Thanks

has it been confirmed that we can only access port 0-3( 4 ports ) on the 8port Kworld SEC800?

I picked up one of those cards and like the original poster, video0 ports 0-3 work fine but ports 4-7 don't work yet.

maybe we can get some info from Kworld on making this work????

I am using the 8 port Kworld card, and I also am limited to 4 cameras. Just adding a data point.

itsthemedication wrote:I am using the 8 port Kworld card, and I also am limited to 4 cameras. Just adding a data point.

did you have any problems with frame rates and camera image quality? I had one B/W camera connected( port 0 ) and created 4 monitors with the fsp set to 5.0 maximum. All I could get ZM to show for that one camera was a white window with the time ticking away. Only when I dropped the 3 unused monitors fps down to 1-2fps each did the video from the camera show up.

also, what frame rates are you getting across the 4 camera and what are their specs( resolutions, color or B/W, etc ). Thanks.

I ended up using two cameras - I slowed them down to 5 fps although a one point they were doing fine at 30 fps. I never tried with 4 cameras (I just tested all the ports one by one). I was using Panasonic CCTV, color, fixed (WV-CS854). Never felt like I was stressing the capture card, but instead thought I might be pushing the very lame built-in video S3 graphics adapter. Am going to install a better graphics card in the machine and then I will hook up four cameras and try for 4 at 30fps. I'll let you know...

i just picked up this card ( 4 port ) and i can not ge a color signal in. do you guys get color?
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i just got the 4-port K-world security card as well. I'm trying to use card=77 and card=78 but i only get blue images in xawtv.

I'm basically getting the same as this guy:

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... light=bttv

My card box says it's a K-world 4-port but my card matches the lspci output from this guy (3rd post):

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... lspci+109e

what card/tuner type did you use to get a picture. I'd by happy with ANY picture at this point.....

johabba wrote:i just got the 4-port K-world security card as well. I'm trying to use card=77 and card=78 but i only get blue images in xawtv.

I'm basically getting the same as this guy:

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... light=bttv

My card box says it's a K-world 4-port but my card matches the lspci output from this guy (3rd post):

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... lspci+109e

what card/tuner type did you use to get a picture. I'd by happy with ANY picture at this point.....

Are you using the LiveCD? Also, I'm not sure what you mean by, "card=77"

Matt

I tried the liveCD/MandrivaCD for 1.21.4. I have also tried debian sarge and windows with the application that comes with the card. All I get is blue screen.

mpoertner:

- what distro are you using? did you have to make _ANY_ changes to get the card to work?
- what is the output of 'dmesg'?
- what is the output of 'cat /proc/interrupts'?
- what is the output of 'lsmod'?
- by 'card=77' i meant the card= value that I have been playing trying to gey my card to show a picture. Do you have any card= values in your /etc/modprobe.conf (or other module option file?)?


I am really desparate to get this card working. I only bought it because others in this forum said it and the 8-port variant works with linux.

other knowledgeable zoneminder users:

- does the blue screen mean the card is working and the camera is the prob?
- i'm worried that it doesn't even give me a picture in windoze. anyone else try this card? please tell how you got it to work.

dont want to damage your spitits but if you have tried it it windows with the sodtware etc id be looking to dens it back.
Blue screen means nothing apart from linux has recognised a device on the path you specifies, whether its working or not it doesnt know

johabba wrote: mpoertner:

- what distro are you using? did you have to make _ANY_ changes to get the card to work?
- what is the output of 'dmesg'?
- what is the output of 'cat /proc/interrupts'?
- what is the output of 'lsmod'?
- by 'card=77' i meant the card= value that I have been playing trying to gey my card to show a picture. Do you have any card= values in your /etc/modprobe.conf (or other module option file?)?


I am really desparate to get this card working. I only bought it because others in this forum said it and the 8-port variant works with linux.

other knowledgeable zoneminder users:

- does the blue screen mean the card is working and the camera is the prob?
- i'm worried that it doesn't even give me a picture in windoze. anyone else try this card? please tell how you got it to work.

I get a blue screen when there is no camera connected to the input. Perhaps your camera is no good? Otherwise, I would guess your card is bad and I'd have it exchanged.

I've always used Ross Melin's LiveCds and I've NEVER had to do anything. It's just always worked. I just upgraded to the livecd version 1.21.3 today and here are the answers to your other questions....

dmesg:
bttv: driver version 0.9.14 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:09.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:10.1
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:09.0, irq: 5, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe2011000
bttv0: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffe1 [init]
bttv: readee error
bttv0: using tuner=-1
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0

/proc/interupts:

CPU0
0: 4280129 XT-PIC timer
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 0 XT-PIC uhci_hcd
5: 362627 XT-PIC uhci_hcd, bttv0
8: 0 XT-PIC rtc
10: 3 XT-PIC ehci_hcd, bttv1
11: 408383 XT-PIC uhci_hcd, eth0
14: 3638 XT-PIC ide0
15: 18 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 4280129
ERR: 5410
MIS: 0

lsmod:

Module Size Used by
af_packet 21768 4
via-rhine 20808 0
mii 5024 1 via-rhine
ide-cd 39904 0
loop 15592 0
via-agp 8480 1
agpgart 32552 1 via-agp
tuner 17068 0
tvaudio 21484 0
bttv 147244 1
video-buf 20292 1 bttv
i2c-algo-bit 9192 1 bttv
v4l2-common 6144 1 bttv
btcx-risc 4680 1 bttv
i2c-core 23476 4 tuner,tvaudio,bttv,i2c-algo-bit
videodev 9792 2 bttv
soundcore 9952 1 bttv
rtc 12568 0
usb-storage 72580 0
sata_vsc 6948 0
sata_via 6788 0
sata_svw 6372 0
sata_sil 7428 0
sata_promise 9156 0
megaraid 39304 0
aha152x 36880 0
a100u2w 11936 0
sg 37372 0
sr_mod 20068 0
cdrom 36924 2 ide-cd,sr_mod
ata_piix 7652 0
sd_mod 21088 0
libata 39364 6 sata_vsc,sata_via,sata_svw,sata_sil,sata_promise,ata_piix
scsi_mod 114156 9 usb-storage,sata_promise,megaraid,aha152x,a100u2w,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
usbhid 43104 0
ehci-hcd 28932 0
uhci-hcd 30800 0
usbcore 107264 6 usb-storage,usbhid,ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd


Hope this helps....

Matt