Did anyone ever get a Pico card working?

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t00t
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Did anyone ever get a Pico card working?

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Hi,

I've just started playing with Zone Minder, and was wondering if anyone had managed to get it to work with a Pico Card, I have 1 channel up and running with the card type set to 13, but I don't get any additional channels in the dev/v4l/ directory.

I'm assuming the card I have is Pico, but as it's a cloan card it's hard to be sure :wink:

The model number on it is WL-020204A

Thanks in advance
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whiteowl
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Euresys Picolo Tetra - did not work with regular bttv driver

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I have a 1-U server with a PCI-X slot and 3.3 v signalling. I tried the Euresys Picolo Tetra (not the Tetra-X) and it did not work. The bttv driver did detect the board and the 4 video devices were set up. But I would only get a black screen. I speculate that the Tetra has 64 bit transfers and the driver is only set up for 64 bit drivers. Now if the Picolo 2 would work in a regular PCI slot with the BTTV drivers is another question which I cannot answer.
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t00t
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Post by t00t »

actually I was talking about the Pico card not the Picolo.

However I did eventually get it to work with the following V4L settings.

CardType 104
gbuffers 4
tuner 4

although the frame rate was so bad I've decided not to use Zoneminder/V4L
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CreativeBR
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Post by CreativeBR »

t00t wrote:actually I was talking about the Pico card not the Picolo.

However I did eventually get it to work with the following V4L settings.

CardType 104
gbuffers 4
tuner 4

although the frame rate was so bad I've decided not to use Zoneminder/V4L
Dear t00t,

Did you find any other solution to use pico cards under linux ?

Thanks.
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CreativeBR
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fernando
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Post by fernando »

what linux/release/kernel. are all using?

i use mdk 10.1 and all is going well that card is a simple bt878 chip.. nothing magical or strange.
Fernando
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t00t
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Post by t00t »

Sorry CreativeBR,

I've not really played around with it anymore, perhaps there are some native drivers somewhere, although I've never been able to track any down.

t00t
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CreativeBR
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Post by CreativeBR »

fernando wrote:what linux/release/kernel. are all using?

i use mdk 10.1 and all is going well that card is a simple bt878 chip.. nothing magical or strange.
Hi Fernando,

I[m trying to install the liveCD and set up a system with 2 bt878a cards (pico2000 i think).

Could you tell more about the frame rate that you got in your system?

Using WinXP, generic WDM drivers and ActiveWebCAM 5.0 i could get this frame rates:

1 Pico 1 camera input - 25 FPS
1 Pico 2 camera input - 5 FPS
1 Pico 3 camera input - 3 FPS

2 Pico 2 camera input (one input per card) - 18 FPS for both cards
2 Pico 3 camera input (2 cameras to one card- 1 camera to the other) - 18 FPS and 3.5 FPS

So i think under linux may be i could get a better performance than this.

Thanks
CreativeBR
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