NAME
bktr —
Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 and
Pinnacle PCTV video capture driver
SYNOPSIS
device bktr
device iicbus
device iicbb
device smbus
DESCRIPTION
Thebktr 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:
PCI to PCI dma transfer clipping yuv rgb16 rgb24 rgb32
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.
options BROOKTREE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT=BROOKTREE_PALoptions BROOKTREE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT=BROOKTREE_NTSC
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
HISTORY
The bktr driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 2.2.
AUTHORS
This driver is based on the work of Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu>, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com>, Roger Hardiman <roger@FreeBSD.org> and a bunch of other people. Support for Pinnacle PCTV Rave cards was added by Branko Lankester <branko@euro.net>.