Pinnacle PCTV Pro

• Miro PCTV
• Miro PCTV Pro
• Pinnacle PCTV
• Pinnacle PCTV Pro

These Miro and Pinnacle cards were the original PCTV series, produced from December 1997 onwareds. They are based on the Bt848 chip. The PCTV Pro includes an FM radio chip.

See also:

• Bttv devices (bt848, bt878)

Pro model with FM plug-in card.

TODO

• Sound: Needs to be redirected using sox.
• Remote control, needs some configuration, and maybe lirc? See also Remote controllers

Remote control

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

Card features

• PCI
• PAL/NTSC/SECAM
• Video/audio decoder: bt848
• Analog demodulator: MSP3410D-B4 (msp3400)
• TV tuner: Temic 4002 FH5 (also possibly Philips on some cards)
• FM radio chip (PRO only): MSP3410
• Supports 16:9-format (?)
• Resolution: 768x576 and 720x576 (PAL)

The card has no on board sound AD nor remote control input.

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)

Connecting the card

• The TV antenna signal is connected to the antenna input.
• A cable (supplied) should be connected from the card audio output connector to a generic sound input (usually found on the main board).
• The remote control sensor cable (supplied) is connected to a 9 pin serial input (usually there is one on the main board).

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

card=11

The cards may be detected automatically, but at least for the Pro card is is required to specify options explicitly in /etc/modules.cond (for Fedora, other distributions may do it differently):

 options bttv card=11 tuner=0

card=39

The card was autodetected by bttv as card=39, but didn't work. However when I added

 options bttv card=39 tuner=33

it started working! Must be some bug, since only "tuner=33" didn't work either. Pinnacle PCTV Pro bought in Sweden (PAL).

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://linux.box.sk/faq_list.php?subject=Linux%20-%3E%20Hardware (slightly out of date)
• http://www.mirosupport.de/media/pctv/pctv.html