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I'm trying to run the bluecherry cd with a kodicom 4400... any Idea what I need to do to get video working?
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lsmod shows the bttv module.
It's installed to disk from the 2.0 beta cd. (zm 2.4.1)
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thanks.

do you have any /dev/video* devices?

So I address channels as follows in zm...

/dev/video0 0 (channel1)
/dev/video0 1 (channel2)
/dev/video0 2 (channel3)
/dev/video0 3 (channel4)
/dev/video1 0 (channel5)
/dev/video1 1 (channel6)
and so on.... until we get to 16....

I get the same video on /dev/video0 3 as /dev/video1 3

(I have a camera in the third port of the bnc ports built onto the card...)
I have 4 or so otjher cameras on other channels but never see them...
/etc/modprobe.d/
I have a file called options.video
It has this in it

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++snip+++++
alias char-major-81 bttv
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=133,132,133,133 tuner=4,4,4,4
++++++++++++++++++++donesnip++++++++++++++++

I've re-booted as well...
what chmoding
does this file need? I have it open for the heck of it....
card works fine with diginet 4.13 sp7

thanks..
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That /etc/modprobe.conf you have looks correct according to googling around for other people using your card, even with ZM (example: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=258867).

You may have to via trial and error figure out which channel the proper inputs are on. In other words, connect only one video source to the first BNC, figure out which device and channel it is, then move it to the next BNC, repeat.

Do I need to have the first bnc plugged in for the second to work?
I have 5 cams plugged in.... I guess I'm just confised...
hehe

You shouldn't. I would try setting them up one at a time just to verify which channel each BNC is on.

I have a clone of the same card.
Here is my modprobe in a openduse11.1, allthough i believe that your configuration is ok .

alias char-major-81 videodev
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
options bttv card=133,132,133,133 tuner=-1,-1,-1,-1

# YaST configured TV card
# nEtx.bJ31E5obFa9:Kodicom 4400R (slave)
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
# YaST configured TV card
# sLwP.bJ31E5obFa9:Kodicom 4400R (master)
alias char-major-81-1 bttv
# YaST configured TV card
# xSzt.bJ31E5obFa9:Kodicom 4400R (slave)
alias char-major-81-2 bttv
# YaST configured TV card
# 0a0M.bJ31E5obFa9:Kodicom 4400R (slave)
alias char-major-81-3 bttv

I am only using two cameras and i believe that your problem has to do with sequence of the video devices.
For my setup video0 is the first hardware bttv device on the board, with video1 the second and so on. I can access the 4 bnc connectors on the board with the closest to the motherboard working as video0 channel0 the next bnc as video1 channel1 and video2 channel2...video3 channel3. For more that 4 inputs where the bnc bracket extentions are used together with ADC sampling of the inputs i have no idea about the input/device relation.

This particular card does not function like the others and actually is an awesome card to work with but getting the setting correct so it behaves can be a bear.

Your options for input are channels 0 to 15 and you can chose what device they run on buy setting it to the device.

Ie.
/dev/video2 (4) will put input 4 on the third device or
/dev/video0 (4) will put input 4 on the first device

/dev/video1 (15) will put the last input on the second device.

This card is very flexible, put this same flexibility also raises some issues particular to this card. Search the forum on this card and you will find what we did about 5 years ago, still applies today.