Terratec Grabster MX150/250

Front view of the Terratec Grabster MX150/250 device

A analog PAL/NTSC audio/video capture USB device from TerraTec.

Overview/Features

• USB 2.0 interface, Type B socket
• Inputs: Composite, S-Video, Stereo Audio
• Leds: Power (blue)
• Norms: PAL (720x576 @ 25 fps), NTSC (720x480 @ 29.97 fps)

Experimentlal support currently exists (see here). Sound support is untested, may not work or might work only mono or left(right) channel might be muted when input is muxed to S-Video(composite) or vice versa.

USB ID 0ccd:0079

Pictures

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  back view of casing

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  PCB top view

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  PCB bottom view

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  PCB closeup

Identification

#dmesg
usb 2-4: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0ccd, idProduct=0079
usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=64
usb 2-4: Product: Grabster_Series
usb 2-4: Manufacturer: Terratec
usb 2-4: SerialNumber: 2.0
tm6000: alt 0, interface 0, class 255
tm6000: alt 0, interface 0, class 255
tm6000: Bulk IN endpoint: 0x82 (max size=512 bytes)
tm6000: alt 1, interface 0, class 255
tm6000: ISOC IN endpoint: 0x81 (max size=3072 bytes)
tm6000: alt 1, interface 0, class 255
tm6000: alt 2, interface 0, class 255
tm6000: alt 2, interface 0, class 255
tm6000: New video device @ 480 Mbps (0ccd:0079, ifnum 0)
tm6000: Found Terratec Grabster AV 150/250 MX
Found tm6000
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 20: ab ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 40: ab ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 60: ab ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 80: ab ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom a0: ab ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom c0: ab ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
i2c i2c-14: Invalid 7-bit I2C address 0x00
Unknown tuner type. Tuner is not configured.
tm6000 #0: registered device video1
Trident TVMaster TM5600/TM6000/TM6010 USB2 board (Load status: 0)
usbcore: registered new interface driver tm6000
tm6000 #0: Initialized (TM6000 Audio Extension) extension

Experimental driver

kernel patch against 3.x [1]