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Zoltrix TV Max
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1 3360 10-02-2004
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100% of reviewers $6.50 9.0



Description: The TV Max is a digital video in-lay board with TV, image and clip capture. A bus-master PCI slot is required, plus a VGA card with DirectDraw 2.0 (or later). In addition to displaying live video in a window, individual video images and video clips can be digitized and stored to disk.

Live video is digitized from either the built-in 125-channel cable TV tuner or an external video-input source using high quality 4:2:2 video sampling. The digitized video is sent over the PCI bus in your PC into the memory of your VGA display adapter. This allows the digitized video to move efficiently, and takes a fraction of the available bandwidth of the PCI bus.

Your PC's VGA graphics adapter needs DirectDraw support. VGA cards tested for compatibility with the TV Max are:

- S3 Trio64V+,Trio32/64, Vision968 and ViRGE
- Cirrus Logic 5446
- Matrox Millenium and Mystique
- Hercules Dynamite 128 (and other ET6000 based VGA cards)
- ATI Mach64 and Rage series of graphics display adapters.

Your PC must be a Pentium-100 or faster compatible computer with a free PCI slot.
Keywords: Zoltrix TV NTSC PAL TUNER CABLE BT848 VIDEO CAPTURE V4L
/sbin/lspci output: 0000:00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12)
Chipset: Bt848
Connection Type: PCI


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Old 10-02-2004, 12:42 PM   #1
HappyTux
 
Registered: Mar 2003
Distribution: Debian AMD64
Posts: 3,511
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $6.50 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8.1-ck8
Distribution: Debian Sarge/SID



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The only real problem when installing is if you do not use modprobe bttv card=15 tuner=6 (the tuner for the NTSC version not sure for PAL) either in a script called during the startup process when booting or make sure the bttv module is not loaded until you get the chance to use the modprobe command at the console then the card will be auto detected as unknown type and tuner thus will not work. Otherwise it works flawlessly when correctly initialized. The output seen in the boot messages when it is detected correctly this when booting kernel 2.6.8.1.


Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt848 (rev 18) at 0000:00:09.0, irq: 9, latency: 64, mmio: 0xdcdff000
bttv0: using: Zoltrix TV-Max [card=15,insmod option]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffebff [init]
bttv0: using tuner=6
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus bt848 #0 [sw]
tuner: type set to 6 (Temic NTSC (4032 FY5)) by bt848 #0 [sw]
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
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