Pico2000 4-port DVR card

[robi]

Hi All,

Just got a card called "Star Imavision Video Capture".
It's a Pico2000-compatible card. It looks like this:


My ZM box, that used to work until now with a regular TV tuner board, recognizes this card (that has exactly the same chip as the TV tuner) and ZoneMinder seems to work with it. However, I had to select, for "Device Format", the "AUTO" option. Any other manually selected format gives distorted picture, pink overlays and so on. I'd normally use PAL.

The biggest problem however is that the picture is Black and White only. I tried all the Capture Palette options, in RGBs it's B/W, in YUVs it's pinky. Gray is naturally B/W.

I also tried to play with the Monitor's settings, (Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Colour) but no results at all. Still B/W.

May be an initialization problem...?

Any ideas? I'd really appreciate.

My dmesg:

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ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 0480-04bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x400-0x4bf could not be reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: dc000000-ddffffff
  PREFETCH window: d0000000-d7ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
  IO window: c000-cfff
  MEM window: de000000-dfffffff
  PREFETCH window: e0000000-e00fffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1177178067.528:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 3750k, total 65536k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=2
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:f360
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 13182 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 9805 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 5
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 6V320F0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4520B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 625142448 sectors (320072 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=38913/255/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
PCI0 HUB0 UAR1 USB0 USB1 MODM
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
Freeing unused kernel memory: 244k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 1.20 loaded.
logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 102
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: hda5: orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 3352328
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 3352262
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 3352167
EXT3-fs: hda5: 3 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input1
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 16, io base 0x0000d000
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.4[C] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 17, io base 0x0000d800
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. Labtec for Notebooks
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_probe:5480] Camera type JPEG
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h: [zc3xx_config:543] Find Sensor PAS202BCB
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:1765] maxw 640 maxh 480 minw 176 minh 144
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:02:03.0, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe0000000
bttv0: using:  *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC ***  [card=0,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f36fff [init]
hiddev0: USB HID v1.00 Device [American Power Conversion Back-UPS 500 FW: 6.5.I USB FW: c1 ] on usb-0000:00:1f.2-2
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.60.00 registered
tveeprom 0-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)?
bttv0: using tuner=-1
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
bttv0: registered device video1
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.1[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
bt878_probe: card id=[0x0],[ <NULL> ] has DVB functions.
bt878(0): Bt878 (rev 17) at 02:03.1, irq: 17, latency: 32, memory: 0xe0001000
hw_random: RNG not detected
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd8000000
p4-clockmod: P4/Xeon(TM) CPU On-Demand Clock Modulation available
device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal
Adding 4088500k swap on /dev/hda1.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4088500k
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda7, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
loop: loaded (max 8 devices, max 1 partitions per device)
hdc: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
NET: Registered protocol family 17
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8e38000, 00:50:8d:50:aa:8d, IRQ 16
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101'
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to off
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-9631  Thu Nov  9 17:38:10 PST 2006
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. Labtec for Notebooks
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_probe:5480] Camera type JPEG
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h: [zc3xx_config:543] Find Sensor PAS202BCB
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:1765] maxw 640 maxh 480 minw 176 minh 144
[root@zmhvk mi]#

The windows driver (cg300VC.inf) has this description:

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Star.DeviceDesc0 = "Star Imavision Video Capture"
DiskId1 = "Star Imavision Installation Disk (Media)"
Star = "Star Imavision"
cg300.SvcDesc="cg300VidCap"

Thanks in advance.

[robi]

In addition, I see that one of the cameras, in Modect, goes orange after a while. Restarting ZM solves it temporarily, but after a while it's orange again.

There are 2 cameras set up on this card, both in modect.

[cordel]

My dmesg:

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[snip]
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. Labtec for Notebooks
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_probe:5480] Camera type JPEG
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/zc3xx.h: [zc3xx_config:543] Find Sensor PAS202BCB
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: [spca5xx_getcapability:1765] maxw 640 maxh 480 minw 176 minh 144
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:02:03.0, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe0000000
bttv0: using:  *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC ***  [card=0,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f36fff [init]
hiddev0: USB HID v1.00 Device [American Power Conversion Back-UPS 500 FW: 6.5.I USB FW: c1 ] on usb-0000:00:1f.2-2
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx
/union/home/guest/spca5xx-20060501/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c: spca5xx driver 00.60.00 registered
tveeprom 0-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)?
bttv0: using tuner=-1
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
bttv0: registered device video1
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.1[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
bt878_probe: card id=[0x0],[ <NULL> ] has DVB functions.
bt878(0): Bt878 (rev 17) at 02:03.1, irq: 17, latency: 32, memory: 0xe0001000

The Kernel was not able to auto detect this card. You have to manualy set it to card=77 in modprobe.conf on most Distros.

bttv0: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected]

[robi]

The Kernel was not able to auto detect this card. You have to manualy set it to card=77 in modprobe.conf on most Distros.

Cool, thanks. Great options too (vcr_hack )

[jameswilson]

as Corey said this is a 77 card

[robi]

as Corey said this is a 77 card

Yep, got it workin' thanks alot.

options bttv gbuffers=32 card=77 tuner=4 radio=0 coring=1 full_luma_range=1 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=1 autoload=0 triton1=0 vsfx=0

Too bad the wiki is not that intuitive.

I am considering to 'donate' you some of my time, as I am not able to send you money. Perhaps I could give a hand in organizing the documentation... I have some experience in documenting projects.

I just need to re-organize my schedules.

[robi]

If you look at the picture, you'll see a blue potentiometer just by the audio jack. What is that for? Does anybody have a clue what is that trimmer used for?

It can be seen on all Pico2000 cards.

[cordel]

My best guess would be that it looks like to bias the transistor for the audio input. Input audio level trim maybe to adjust the gain.

[jameswilson]

agreed I believe its a volume/gain adjustment

re the wiki, anytging you can do for the benefit of the zm community would be great mate. Feel free to have an 'organise'