bktr

NAME

bktr — Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 and Pinnacle PCTV video capture driver

SYNOPSIS

device bktr
device iicbus
device iicbb
device smbus

DESCRIPTION

The bktr driver provides support for PCI video capture and VBI capture on low cost, high performance boards. The driver is based on the Matrox Meteor driver and uses the same API. The bktr driver should support most video cards based on the Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 Video Capture Chip. Also supported are most Pinnacle PCTV video cards. Furthermore, the driver supports FM Radio if the tuner supports it. The driver currently supports the following features: On the supported cards, tuners and other components are interconnected with an I2C bus. The Brooktree848 chips act as a master device on the bus to control them. Therefore, iicbus(4), iicbb(4) and smbus(4) controller declarations are mandatory to activate bktr support. The following kernel parameters may be used to further configure the driver: options BROOKTREE_ALLOC_PAGES=xxx specifies the number of contiguous pages to allocate when successfully probed. The default number of pages allocated by the kernel is 216. This means that there are (216*4096) bytes available for use. One of these options can be used to set the default video format for the driver. This fixed random hangs and lockups with the VideoLogic Captivator PCI card. The following sysctls may be used to further configure the driver: sysctl hw.bt848.card=nnnn This can be used to override the card make which was detected at boot time. ‘nnnn’ is set to an integer from 1 to 23 taken from the following table:

MIRO

1

HAUPPAUGE

2

STB

3

INTEL

4

IMS_TURBO

5

AVER_MEDIA

6

OSPREY

7

NEC_PK

8

IO_GV

9

FLYVIDEO

10

ZOLTRIX

11

KISS

12

VIDEO_HIGHWAY_XTREME

13

ASKEY_DYNALINK_MAGIC_TVIEW

14

LEADTEK

15

TERRATVPLUS

16

IO_BCTV3

17

AOPEN_VA1000

18

PINNACLE_PCTV_RAVE

19

PIXELVIEW_PLAYTV_PAK

20

TERRATVALUE

21

PIXELVIEW_PLAYTV_PRO_REV_4C

22

Bt848_MAX

23

sysctl hw.bt848.tuner=nnnn This can be used to override the tuner make which was detected at boot time. ‘nnnn’ is set to an integer from 0 to 16 taken from the following table:

NO_TUNER

0

TEMIC_NTSC

1

TEMIC_PAL

2

TEMIC_SECAM

3

PHILIPS_NTSC

4

PHILIPS_PAL

5

PHILIPS_SECAM

6

TEMIC_PALI

7

PHILIPS_PALI

8

PHILIPS_FR1236_NTSC

9 /* These have FM Radio support */

PHILIPS_FR1216_PAL

10 /* These have FM Radio support */

PHILIPS_FR1236_SECAM

11 /* These have FM Radio support */

ALPS_TSCH5

12

ALPS_TSBH1

13

MT2032

14

LG_TPI8PSB12P_PAL

15

Bt848_MAX

16

HARDWARE

The bktr driver supports video capture cards based on the Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 chips, as well as Pinnacle PCTV cards, including:

• AOpen VA1000
• AVerMedia AVerTV Studio
• AVerMedia TF/FM-98
• ATI TV Wonder VE
• Hauppauge WinCast/TV
• Hauppauge WinTV-Go-FM
• Hauppauge WinTV-pci
• Hauppauge WinTV-radio
• Intel Smart Video Recorder III
• KWORLD PCI TV Tuner
• Miro PC TV
• Pinnacle PCTV Pro
• Pinnacle PCTV Rave
• PixelView PlayTV PAK
• PixelView PlayTV Pro (rev 4C, 9D)
• SIGMA TV II
• STB TV PCI Television Tuner
• Super TV Tuner
• TerraTec TValue
• V-Stream XPERT TV-PVR 878
• Video Highway XTreme
• VideoLogic Captivator PCI

FILES

/usr/ports/multimedia/fxtv

A TV and Camera display program utilizing the bktr driver - requires that The X Window System and The Ports Collection also be installed.

/usr/ports/audio/xmradio

An FM Radio Tuner for cards which have an FM Radio tuner fitted - requires that The X Window System and The Ports Collection also be installed. It also requires Motif or the lesstif port.

SEE ALSO

meteor(4)

HISTORY

The bktr driver first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS

This driver is based on the work of Jim Lowe <[email protected]>, Mark Tinguely <[email protected]>, Amancio Hasty <[email protected]>, Roger Hardiman <[email protected]> and a bunch of other people. Support for Pinnacle PCTV Rave cards was added by Branko Lankester <[email protected]>.