On Sunday 27 July 2003 02:26, Champ Clark wrote: > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > > On Monday 21 July 2003 13:06, Trey Waters wrote: > > > I've found a few cards based off the BT878A chipset, and it looks like > > > they should be supported ok as far as the driver goes, but I'm > > > skeptical on whether or not each port will have its own /dev/videoN > > > interface. I've tried searching for more info, but can't find any. > > > > On my Linux Media Labs LMLBTM44's all four 878's show up as a separate > > /dev/videoN. So you get (with no other video devices) /dev/video0 > > through video3. > > I have the same card here. I'm writing a front end DVR (for > security - based on "motion") for a small company. It's actually a > pretty nice card, but wouldn't work very well for a Tivo type system > (no tuner). Video devices are split up like Lamar said.. > /dev/videoN (0-3). I've used port 0 and 1 with full motion (at > 352x288 and 640x480) with no problems. I'm using the 2.4.20 kernel > (without the Linux Media drivers). Another nice thing about this > setup, though I have not tested it, while "motion" (motion.sf.net) > is using /dev/video0 and /dev/video1, I _think_ I can use port 2 and > 3 with other applications without interfering with motion (ie - not > conflicting - device busy.. etc). You should be able to do so. > If I'm right, this would make it nice for converting home VCR format > movies... and keeping the "security system" up. I haven't gotten > audio to work with the card (though, i haven't tried to hard either). There is no audio on the card, so, no, I don't think it will work. Unless that's one of the undocumented connectors.... > It's a nice video card. It's a little high priced, but it's made very > well (the design, layout, etc). It's based on the BT878, so you'll > need a decent CPU and I/O with that many video ports. What did you use in your modules.conf with the vanilla kernel? -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
