Pinnacle PCTV Pro

Pinnacle/Pro

These Pinnacle cards are based on the Bt848 chip, and were the original PCTV series. They are also sold under the Miro brand. The PCTV Pro includes an FM radio chip.

See also:

• Cardlist.BTTV
• Bttv devices (bt848, bt878)

Bugs

• Sound, how to do it?
• Remote control, how to do it?

Remote controllers

The Pinnacle cards are supplied with a remote controller which is the same as for Pinnacle PCTV 50i

Card features

• PCI
• PAL/NTSC/SECAM
• Video/audio decoder: Bt848
• Analog demodulator: TBD
• TV tuner: Temic 4002 FH5 (also possibly Philips)
• FM radio chip (PRO only): MSP3410
• Supports 16:9-format (?)
• Resolution: 768x576 and 720x576 (PAL)

Card connectors

• TV RF signal: ??? with adapter to IEC connector (PAL)
• Video Input: S-Video
• Video Input: Composite Video (RCA socket)
• Audio Outputs: 3.5 mm jack
• FM radio RF signal (PRO only): Internal RC jack with flying wire to IEC connector
• Video composite out (internal)

The IR-Remote requires a 9 pin serial connector

lspci -v

 00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12)
       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
       Memory at e2001000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]

Module Options

 options bttv card=11

Kernel output

 bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
 bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
 bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
 bttv0: Bt848 (rev 18) at 0000:00:0a.0, irq: 21, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe2001000
 bttv0: using: MIRO PCTV pro [card=11,insmod option]
 bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00e707df [init]
 tuner 2-0060: All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
 tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt848 #0 [sw])
 tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (bt848 #0 [sw])
 msp3400 2-0040: MSP3410D-B4 found @ 0x80 (bt848 #0 [sw])
 msp3400 2-0040: MSP3410D-B4 supports nicam, mode is autodetect
 bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
 bttv0: miro: id=1 tuner=0 radio=matchbox stereo=yes
 bttv0: using tuner=0
 tuner 2-0060: type set to 0 (Temic PAL (4002 FH5))
 bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
 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 video1
 bttv0: registered device vbi1
 bttv0: registered device radio1

Links

• http://www.mirosupport.de/media/pctv/pctv.html