Brad Campbell wrote: > Manu Abraham wrote: >> Brad Campbell wrote: >>> Kunal Rupera wrote: >>>> I checked out some cards >>>> >>>> http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Pinnacle_PCTV_50i this card >>>> seems to fit my budget as well as runs on linux. >>>> >>>> But will this card take in component as an input source? I cannot make >>>> out anything from the picture provided there. >>>> >>> What CCTV camera are you using that has a component output?!? >>> All the units I've ever used/seen have a standard composite output, and you >>> can feed them into any >>> old cheap-o BT878 based capture card. >> Standard HD cams, used for high res monitoring, uses Component output >> [1]only. Composite[2] is fixed to standard PAL/NTSC and cannot be used >> for those applications. Also, such cams cannot be interfaced to an >> el-cheapo 878 composite input, since it lacks a YPbPr input. >> >> That said, the person who posted uses a camera with a simple composite >> output only. > > Absolutely. > > Manu, I've ripped out my VP-1030A DST-CI as it's an unreliable piece of crap. > Do you want it for > testing purposes? I've not been able to use it since Kernel 2.6.16..
I have stopped working on the DST as it is. All the FTA cards and the DSTMCI (revamped firmware) based ones work fine, but there are quite a lot of hardware other than which falls into these 2 categories. So, AFAICS, the DST-CI falls into the latter. This is a limitation arising from improper parsing of the PCMCIA Card Information Structure tuples. Did figure this out alongwith the Aston guys in France, while trying to get it working with their CAM's. Have a dozen at least different variants of the dst's. The CI hardware on the dst is quite unreliable, due to couple of limitations. They EOL'd that product after the vendor was taken over by the ASUS group, now they are known as Azurewave Technologies. They abandoned the DST product line and use the Mantis, SAA716x, and Trident bridge based devices these days instead. Currently working on some PCI Express bridge chips from Trident and NXP for some devices from Technotrend, KNC1 and Azurewave. Other than the bridges, working on DVB-S2 demodulators from ST Microelectronics and working on some support for some DVB-T/H demodulators from AFA Technologies. Manu
