Compro VideoMate Vista M1F

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An Analog TV PCI card from Compro_Technology.

Overview/Features

• PCI interface
• Inputs: Antenna (Composite), Remote and S-Video In

Components Used

• NXP/Philips SAA7135HS/203 -- A/V decoder and PCI Interface (IC1)
• EM78P156LMJ -- 8 bits microprocessor? (IC2)
• TDA 9801T -- VIF-PLL demodulator & FM-PLL (IC3)
• TEA 5767 -- FM tuning (IC4)
• 4.0F8E -- Crystal oscilator (XT1)
• 32 110 BLX -- Crystal oscilator (XT2)
• X4.58 -- filter? (FLT1)

Other Images

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  VideoMate Vista M1F Box

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  Connectors view

Identification

# lspci -vvvnn
01:07.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder [1131:7133] (rev d1)
       Subsystem: Compro Technology, Inc. VideoMate T750 [185b:c900]
       Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
       Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
       Latency: 64 (21000ns min, 8000ns max)
       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
       Region 0: Memory at feaff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
       Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
               Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
       Kernel driver in use: saa7134

Making it Work

Work is underway to add support for this card to the saa7134 V4L2 driver. See this and this thread.

Firmware

No firmware is needed for this card.

Drivers

See Making it Work above.

Sample Kernel Output

Output when loading the 'saa7134' module with the 'i2c_scan=1' option:

# dmesg
[    4.213572] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    4.291311] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.15 loaded
[    4.291667] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 17
[    4.291670]   alloc irq_desc for 17 on node -1
[    4.291672]   alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[    4.291680] saa7134 0000:01:07.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[    4.291684] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:01:07.0, rev: 209, irq: 17, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfeaff800
[    4.291689] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 185b:c900, board: Compro VideoMate T750 [card=139,autodetected]
[    4.291711] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 63f00
[    4.291720] IRQ 17/saa7133[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
[    4.433016] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 5b 18 00 c9 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
[    4.433022] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    4.433027] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 03 01 03 08 ff 00 89 ff ff ff ff
[    4.433032] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    4.433036] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff da 00 c6 86 ff ff ff 03 ff ff ff c6 ff 04 11
[    4.433041] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff cb
[    4.433045] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: 35 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    4.433049] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    4.433054] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    4.433058] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    4.433062] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    4.433067] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    4.433071] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    4.433075] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    4.433080] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    4.433084] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    4.446016] saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xa0  [eeprom]
[    4.450016] saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xc0  [tuner (analog)]
[    4.452016] saa7133[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xc6  [???]
[    4.574187] tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (saa7133[0])
[    4.574232] tea5767 1-0060: type set to Philips TEA5767HN FM Radio
[    4.580535] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[    4.580551] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
[    4.580566] saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
[    4.583456] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
[    4.583462] IRQ 17/saa7133[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
[    4.583476] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xfeaff800 irq 17 registered as card -1

Remote Control Support

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  VideoMate Vista M1F remote control

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  Remote control sticker

The remote control included is a Windows Media Center-compatible RC, uses the RC-6 protocol and is the same as the one included with the K100 kit sold by Compro but with a receiver integrated into the card instead of an USB one.

External Links

• Compro VideoMate Vista M1F product page