TV out

John Williams · Post by **John Williams** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:22 am

Does anyone have a capture card with a working monitor out feed? I see a couple of 4 port cards that have this electrical feature, but no info on whether it really works. Kind of pricey also...

What I would like is to be able to feed all 4 channels out in a montage or a scroll (with titles if possible) to a upstairs monitor.

Noticed that the Kodicom cards have a video out feature...that v4l says is not enabled.

here is another...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Linux-DVR-Card-4-CH ... dZViewItem

robi · Post by **robi** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:09 pm

It's called PICO2000© Basic Plus (UCC4P capture cards).

This card was introduced in late 2003 with the following additions:

Hardware Synchronization - Provides steadier and better quality video without compromising frame rates.

TV-Out and Audio - A feature new to the series is on-board TV-Out. This means taking a real-time video feed directly from the board to a TV screen. This feed is independent of the recording and other PICO2000© features and so has no affect on performance. Users can select any one of up to sixteen cameras for TV display or can sequence through selected cameras. There are two connections on the board for TV-Out, one at the front and one at the back, for convenience. An Audio input jack (for recording) is now standard on this board.

So I suppose these features are given by the software, which are not supported by ZM.

Post by **cordel** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:40 pm

robi wrote: So I suppose these features are given by the software, which are not supported by ZM.

Not so much Zm as the kernel drivers need to support the feature for it to work.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:13 am

Id also like to add that if the developers were sent new hardware by the community, supporting stuff you have access to for testing is a lot easier than guessing how it works

Flash_ · Post by **Flash_** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:47 am

A generic tv out graphics card would allow tv viewing of the server monitor, which if you set it up in montage view would work as desired.

robi · Post by **robi** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:29 am

Not that easy, as the TV-outs are most easily driven by overlays, that makes necessary to run X on your box. If it could be managed to access the TV-out from background, well, that would be a real challenge.

robi · Post by **robi** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:30 am

jameswilson wrote:Id also like to add that if the developers were sent new hardware by the community, supporting stuff you have access to for testing is a lot easier than guessing how it works

Well the developers could also write along the donation links, something like 'donate hardware'.