Re: [Motion-user] DVR Card with one channel and hadrware or motion limitation

[RV <mo...@in...>]

what does dmesg look like?

Sounds like the card was not detected correctly or not fully supported by
the driver that loaded.


> I have just bought "kodicom 8016 DVRCard"
> (http://www.chengyu.biz/product/DVRCard/DVRCard.asp?id=14&sortid=3).
> After I .installed the card into Linux Mandriva 2007 OS, these files are
> created :
>
>    /dev/video0
>
>
> I tried to display the video using xawtv but I found that only one channel
> could display picture (the other three channels won't display
> the picture).
> Thinking that probably the card was in problem, I installed it into
> Windows XP machine (computer hardware was still the same) and its driver.
> What made me surprise was the software and driver in Windows XP could
> display picture by any channel.
>
> Does anyone know what should I do in order to make xawtv could display the
> picture in any channel ?
> How to configure the DVR Card in motion?
>
> I tried to set up values (in motion config file):
>
>    videodevice /dev/video0
>    input 0
>    norm 0
>
>
>    OR
>
>    videodevice /dev/video0
>    input 1
>    norm 0
>
>    OR
>
>    videodevice /dev/video0
>    input 2
>    norm 0
>
>    OR
>
>    videodevice /dev/video0
>    input 3
>    norm 0
>
>
>
>
> Only "input 1" could display the picture (the same result with xawtv).
> Some comments written in motion.conf are like this :
>
>   # The video input to be used (default: 8)
>   # Should normally be set to 1 for video/TV cards, and 8 for USB cameras
>   input 8
>
>
>
> What happens if I use 3 "kodicom 4400 DVR Card" in one linux computer ?
> Can I still display picture using channel 8 ?
> Is there any limitation for computer or motion program to display picture
> properly
> since "http://www.chengyu.biz/product/DVRCard/DVRCard.asp?id=6&sortid=3"
> wrote that "Single System Support = 2 PCS"?
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Regards,
> Ferry
>
>
>
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