Kodicom 8800

The Kodicom 8800 is a 8 input card with 8 BT878 chips. Real time viewing of all 8 inputs is possible because each input has a dedicated chip for it, resulting in a total of 200FPS for PAL and 240FPS for NTSC.
Since around 2006, this card is no longer in production, however, there are many clones of this card floating around the internet at low cost.
Its important to install heatsinks on the BT878 chips of this card because the chips generate a lot of heat. Without heatsinks and front case fan cooling the heatsinks, the card might not last long.

Use with ZoneMinder

The 8 inputs are from /dev/video0 (0) to /dev/video7 (0).

Use the bttv driver with these options:

• options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
• options bttv gbuffers=32 card=102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102 radio=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 tuner=4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2 full_luma_range=1 coring=1 autoload=0

Limitations

At this time it appears its not possible to install more than 2 cards of this card in the same computer, the computer will detect no more than 16 BT878 chips.