Kodicom 4400r
This card works a little different than the others. The inputs are not bound to any spacific bt878 chip but go through a crosspoint video switch. The way this works is you have inputs (channles) 0-15 and you can assign them to any of the video devices (bt878 chips /dev/video 0-3)
/dev/video0 (3) assigns composit input 3 to the first device
/dev/video1 (0) assigns composit input 0 to the second device etc...
More information can be obtained at linuxtv.org
More notes from the forum General_Notes#Kodicom_Capture_Cards
For video display in ZonEMindeR, make sure you select "Video For Linux Version 1" and the proper resolution for the camera.
Add a single card
modprobe bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133
or
edit your modprobe.conf (on modern linux distributions, the options below should be placed in /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf) to include
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133
requires a 2.6.12 kernel but fully supported in a 2.6.13
I tried and failed on the 2.6.12 but succeeded on the 2.6.13
When using all 16 channels plug the additional BNC's onto the headers bearing in mind the first 4 are on the card. but the order of the channels is 1,2,3,4,9,8,5,4,13,12,11,10,15,14,7,6
- James Wilson
Two Cards in a single box ****
Two 4400r cards - labeled as se-120 (4 8778 chips/card). In an IBM 342 Server. FC4
It is setup with :
/dev/video0 channel 0
/dev/video1 channel 1
/dev/video2 channel 2
/dev/video3 channel 3
/dev/video4 channel 0
/dev/video5 channel 1
/dev/video6 channel 2
/dev/video7 channel 3
- modprobe.conf
alias char-major-81 bttv
options bttv gbuffers=32 card=0x85,0x84,0x85,0x85,0x85,0x84,0x85,0x85 tuner=4
If color cameras show black and white
Adding chroma_agc=1 to your modprobe line might fix it.
Eg.
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133 chroma_agc=1
