Capture Cards

furrest · Post by **furrest** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 5:29 am

After downloading 0.9.15 had no problems installing zoneminder and getting it up and runnining. I still am waiting for the capture card I ordered to arrive so I don't yet have a working system. (But I'm frothing at the mouth to start playing with it.)

I think I may have made a bad choice on the capture card, time will tell; I ordered the grand tec 4 port card. (Not 4 chips, it uses the built-in multiplexer on the BT chipset which I now suspect may not work well with zoneminder).

I saw the card list, but am wondering what people are using and if some cards were easier to set up and/or produced better results than others.

Since I am only planning on doing 2 cameras, it looks at this time, that 2, cheap, one port, cards would produce better results, at a cheaper price, than the card I ordered.

Regards,

Forrest

virgin · Post by **virgin** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 11:14 am

Hi.
I`m using falcon 4 tv in + ttl controller. www.ids-imaging.de
Didn`t have a problem. But the price is 300$. Can you tall me the name of tv card you use.
Sanks.
Regards,
Anatoliy

Post by **zoneminder** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 2:54 pm

Hi Forrest,

I am using a mutliplexed BTTV video card here with no problems. Unfortunately I didn't source it myself so I can't give you a brand but I think it's just a generic BT878 chipset. I also have a Linux Media Labs LML44 (I think) which is not multiplexed but I haven't had too much chance to test it. It took long enough to patch the kernel for it but my other card worked on a stock kernel immediately.

Cheers,

Phil,

dave_d · Post by **dave_d** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 3:40 pm

Hi,

I've got a Linux Media labs card and there are problems with these cards. In the first instance you need to patch the kernel AND use a non-standard bttv driver to get the things to work. In the second instance support is difficult to come by. It seems that Linux media Labs is run by a bunch of Russian emigrees and they don't have too much in the way of English between them. Finally, they'll only ship FedEx and so you end up paying almost twice the asking price once FedEx and HMG have added all their cuts.

I've also tried a Trust card with 4 inputs - but it's really a cut down 16 input card and so the driver is very inefficient in driving it.

A better alternative is the IEI IVC-200 or 100 cards. These are readily obtainable, work well, and are supported by the standard bttv driver. For details see www.wordsworth.co.uk and click on Video Products in the lhs

nick · Post by **nick** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 7:37 pm

I recently installed a 4 port (multiplexed) capture card which I bought through eBay (buy now, not an auction) and to my amazement it worked first time under Red Hat 7.3 using standard bttv drivers. The card cost $38 (about £24) plus $20 for post and packaging which I think is a real bargain!!. It also came with some (windows) movement detection surveillance software which I haven't loaded as I think ZM can't be beaten, and it runs on Linux. The guy selling them is at tywong888@yahoo.com
Anyone interested shoud search eBay using 'cctv' to see if they are still available.

I have no connection with this seller and post this as information only to other members.

Cheers

Nick

maxs · Post by **maxs** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 12:45 am

Nick:
I looked at the card you mentioned on ebay and bought one locally. However it is not auto detected by bttv on my Debian system.
Usually when bttv loads, it logs what card number it has detected from the bttv cardlist. Can you tell me what bttv detects your card as? What version of bttv are you using?

Thanks
max

nick · Post by **nick** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 8:52 pm

Max

Here is some info from 'dmesg' re the capture card. I have another card
installed which is why it detected as #1 rather than #0. Hope this helps

bttv: driver version 0.7.91 loaded
bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge is Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge
bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.
.........................
.........................
bttv: Bt8xx card found (1).
bttv1: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0d.0, irq: 17, latency: 32, memory: 0xef001000
bttv1: using: BT878( *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC **) [card=0,autodetected]
bttv1: enabling ETBF (430FX/VP3 compatibilty)
tuner: probing bt848 #1 i2c adapter [id=0x10005]
i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #1 registered as adapter 1.
bttv1: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv1: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv1: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv1: registered device video1
bttv1: registered device vbi1

Cheers

Nick

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