-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: BF3C E98B 1BBC 1FB8 602A CB29 F18B 8778 3B20 4F2C - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:13:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Loren M Lang <sttng359@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: V4L Mailing List <video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Pinnacle Studio AV/DV Card - --[PinePGP]--------------------------------------------------[begin]-- Is there any support for the Pinnacle Studio AV/DV Deluxe Card for linux? I bought this card when I initially was trying to get into video editting on windoze and I used Pinnacle Studio 7/Adobe Premier for editting software. Since then I've finally converted solely to debian linux. I would like to be able to get this card to work without buying any more hardware to countinue video editing. The DV portion seems to be fully compatible with the standard firewire drivers for linux (at least it loads and says it found a host bridge). The AV portion though is less standard. The PCI listing for the driver shows the board with a pci bridge on it and three chips on the card internal pci bus. $lspci <snip> 02:0a.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device b152 03:04.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) 03:08.0 Multimedia controller: C-Cube Microsystems E4? (rev b1) 03:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8020 $lspci -n <snip> 02:0a.0 Class 0604: 8086:b152 03:04.0 Class 0480: 1131:7146 (rev 01) 03:08.0 Class 0480: 123f:8120 (rev b1) 03:0c.0 Class 0c00: 104c:8020 $lspci -t <snip> - -[02]--+-0a.0-[03]--+-04.0 +-08.0 \-0c.0 Searching through the v4l drivers in the 2.4.20 linux kernel, I found a driver which had a source file called saa7146.c, the same number as one of the chips reported for my AV/DV card. This file is part of the driver for the stratis mpeg2 decoder card though when I loaded this driver, it claims it found a card and I have a new v4l device though I'm not sure how to use it. I believe the pinnacle card is supposed to have a mpeg1/2 encoder/decoder so I'm assuming that that's what it found. The stratis card is only a decoder so does that mean I'd only get half the functionallity with that driver. Also, can I use that driver for AV capture or does it only work for decoding data sent to it from the pci bus? Sorry if this is a mouthful, I'm rather new still to video capture and editting, and I've only use v4l on linux for a couple of weeks so far with a cheap tv tuner card. - -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: BF3C E98B 1BBC 1FB8 602A CB29 F18B 8778 3B20 4F2C - --[PinePGP]----------------------------------------------------------- gpg: Signature made Wed Apr 16 18:13:17 2003 PDT using DSA key ID 3B204F2C gpg: Good signature from "Loren Lang (Loren) <lorenl@xxxxxxxxxx>" - --[PinePGP]----------------------------------------------------[end]-- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ngJi8YuHeDsgTywRAmfkAKCJmUMIjDiX5T/kJ7oSowCYKm0DdACfdGqQ 8AsKBdXHrRtceGer4D5Rn4Y= =Hjs5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
