Geovision Capture card

pete123 · 11-12-2005, 07:47 PM

Ok, This card is made by geovision, its a gv-250 4 port camera capture card. Im trying to get it to work under suse. It gets detected, dmesg shows

Code:

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> Link [LNK1] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:01:08.0, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xd0000000
bttv0: using:  *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC ***  [card=0,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
tveeprom(bttv internal): Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)?
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: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0

I can't seem to get video off the card ( I know the card and camera work, tried it on a windows box)

Programs detect the card has 4 inputs Calling them television, composite 1, s-video and composite 3. It seems like its almost there I just don't see any video.

Anyone got any ideas on this?

KimVette · 11-14-2005, 09:23 AM

It won't work due to DRM on their newer cards. There is SOME chance their older cards will work but they're not standard bt878 cards by any stretch of the imagination.

I've been looking for Linux-compatible video concentrator cards for a while and the only solution I've found is for embedded systems.

pete123 · 11-17-2005, 12:18 PM

Ok, thanks. Well before that card I had another one, its a 'Realtek' KW-SEC400A with 4 inputs. I can see video from all channels now! ( xawtv -c /dev/video0 ) but it always seems to be black and white, although the camera colour and is not in a poorly lit area (so the infrared is not on) and the camera works in colour on the geovision card under windoze..

So Im nearly there, I have tried changing settings in xawtv for the tv standard (PAL / NTSC / SECAM / PAL-Nc etc.. ) But it still is black and white. Any ideas how to get some colour off the card?

pete123 · 11-17-2005, 12:26 PM

Oh and heres a picture of what the camera output looks like in bright lighting conditions

http://tinypic.com/fu7vuv.jpg

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Grabbed from the third input, using xawtv, set to pal-Nc
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