how to make bt878 + ccd b/w camera work together

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Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Can someone give me some guidance on viewing the output of CCD 
> surveillance/astronomy cameras?
> 
> I have a low-light PC164C-EX black and white "high resolution" CCD 
> camera that I would like to use with a bt878-based PV-143PA 4-port 
> capture card. More info here:
> 
> http://www.supercircuits.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=4167
> http://www.bluecherry.net/store/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=33_44&products_id=130 
> 
> 
> How can I use mplayer or something similar to view the composite video 
> output of this camera? Do I need special modprobe.conf entries? I've 
> tried commands like:
> 
> mplayer -tv driver=v4l:norm=ntsc:input=3:width=352:height=240 -double 
> -vo sdl tv://
> 
> but all I get is static. (input=3 is correct, and all other choices give 
> a screen of mostly blue).
> 
> Some diagnostics:
> 
> [root at server2 ~]# dmesg | grep bttv
> bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
> bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
> bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:04.0, irq: 201, latency: 32, mmio: 
> 0xfeb01000
> bttv0: detected: Provideo PV143A [card=105], PCI subsystem ID is aa00:1430
> bttv0: using: ProVideo PV143 [card=105,autodetected]
> bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
> bttv0: using tuner=-1
> 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 video0
> bttv0: registered device vbi0
> bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
> 
> [root at server2 etc]# ll -a /dev/video0
> crw-rw----  1 root root 81, 0 Jul 22 16:28 /dev/video0
> 
> [root at server2 ~]# lspci | grep 878
> 00:04.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video 
> Capture (rev 11)
> 00:04.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture 
> (rev 11)
> 
> [root at server2 ~]# mplayer -tv 
> driver=v4l:norm=ntsc:input=3:width=352:height=240 -double -vo sdl tv://
> MPlayer 1.0pre7-4.0.0 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> ......[snip].....
> Selected device: BT878 video (ProVideo PV143)
>  Capabilites: capture tuner overlay clipping scales
>  Device type: 171
>  Supported sizes: 48x32 => 768x480
>  Inputs: 4
>   0: Composite0: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:ntsc)
>   1: Composite1: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:ntsc)
>   2: Composite2: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:ntsc)
>   3: Composite3: audio camera  (tuner:0, norm:ntsc)
> Using input 'Composite3'
> Selected input hasn't got a tuner!
> SDL: Using driver: x11
> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":1.0".
> vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":1.0" => local 
> display)
> ==========================================================================
> Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video
> VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
> VO: [sdl] 352x240 => 352x240 Planar YV12
> Selected video codec: [rawyv12] vfm:raw (RAW YV12)
> ==========================================================================
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated!
> 
> 
> - Mike
> 

A really late reply, but I am trying to get through all this mail after 
a holiday. I am not a big expert at this but I don't see anything wrong, 
looks like the card is detected properly and that is normally the 
biggest problem. maybe try using xawtv to view the feed, I find it 
easier than mplayer. Dag Wieers had packages for xawtv for FC3 otherwise 
check rpm.pbone.net and you should find sthng

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