SKY-7104 Card help

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Jberg145
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SKY-7104 Card help

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Hello, I am trying to get a Chinese SKY-7104 CCTV card with a single philips chip and 4 inputs to work. When I connect more then 1 camera I get a mix of all the cameras. Has anyone else used one of these cards or might be able to help me with a resolution?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop and Zoneminder 1.25

I have set the following setting in the modprobe file
options saa7134 card=60

Also change the CAPTURES_PER_FRAME to 2 and unchecked V4L_MULTI_BUFFER

zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v

Video Device: /dev/video0
General Capabilities
Driver: saa7134
Card: LifeView/Typhoon/Genius FlyDVB-
Bus: PCI:0000:05:04.0
Version: 3.2.37
Type: 0x5010015
Supports video capture (X)
Does not support video output
Supports frame buffer overlay
Supports VBI capture
Does not support VBI output
Does not support sliced VBI capture
Does not support sliced VBI output
Does not support video output overlay
Has tuner
Does not have audio in and/or out
Does not have radio
Supports read/write i/o (X)
Does not support async i/o
Supports streaming i/o (X)
Standards:
NTSC
NTSC-M
NTSC-M-JP
NTSC-M-KR
PAL
PAL-BG
PAL-H
PAL-I
PAL-DK
PAL-M
PAL-N
PAL-Nc
PAL-60
SECAM
SECAM-B
SECAM-G
SECAM-H
SECAM-DK
SECAM-L
SECAM-Lc
Formats:
8 bpp gray (GREY)
15 bpp RGB, le (RGBO)
15 bpp RGB, be (RGBQ)
16 bpp RGB, le (RGBP)
16 bpp RGB, be (RGBR)
24 bpp RGB, le (BGR3)
24 bpp RGB, be (RGB3)
32 bpp RGB, le (BGR4)
32 bpp RGB, be (RGB4)
4:2:2 packed, YUYV (YUYV)
4:2:2 packed, UYVY (UYVY)
4:2:2 planar, Y-Cb-Cr (422P)
4:2:0 planar, Y-Cb-Cr (YU12)
4:2:0 planar, Y-Cb-Cr (YV12)
Crop Capabilities
Bounds: 720 x 480
Default: 720 x 480
Current: 720 x 480
Inputs: 4
Input 0
Name: Television
Type: Tuner
Audioset: 00000001
Standards: 0xffbfff
Power on (X)
Signal detected (X)
Colour Signal detected
Horizontal Lock detected
Input 1
Name: S-Video
Type: Camera
Audioset: 00000001
Standards: 0xffbfff
Power on (X)
Signal detected (X)
Colour Signal detected
Horizontal Lock detected
Input 2
Name: Composite1
Type: Camera
Audioset: 00000001
Standards: 0xffbfff
Power on (X)
Signal detected (X)
Colour Signal detected
Horizontal Lock detected
Input 3
Name: Composite2
Type: Camera
Audioset: 00000001
Standards: 0xffbfff
Power on (X)
Signal detected (X)
Colour Signal detected
Horizontal Lock detected



lshw -c multimedia

*-multimedia
description: Multimedia controller
product: SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder
vendor: Philips Semiconductors
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:05:04.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=saa7134 latency=64 maxlatency=38 mingnt=15
resources: irq:16 memory:fe6fec00-fe6fefff


Thanks for the help
jameswilson
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Re: SKY-7104 Card help

Post by jameswilson »

May not be the right card number but also try pushing up the grabs per fram beyond 2.
James Wilson

Disclaimer: The above is pure theory and may work on a good day with the wind behind it. etc etc.
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Jberg145
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Re: SKY-7104 Card help

Post by Jberg145 »

There an easy way to figure out the card number?
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