Pinnacle PCTV HD Card (800i)

Pinnacle PCTV HD Card (800i)

An hybrid ATSC PCI card from Pinnacle.

It is currently not supported under Linux. Edit: Analog is supported, digital is not. You can upgrade the drivers with these http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/xc5000-analog just select the .bz2 on the top left of the page, then make, make install

Overview

PCI subsytem ID is: 11bd:0051

Output of lspci -vvnn:

00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller [0400]: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [14f1:8800] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. Unknown device [11bd:0051]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 32 (5000ns min, 13750ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
	Region 0: Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
	Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

00:0a.1 Multimedia controller [0480]: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] [14f1:8801] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. Unknown device [11bd:0051]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 32 (1000ns min, 63750ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
	Region 0: Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

00:0a.2 Multimedia controller [0480]: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] [14f1:8802] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Pinnacle Systems Inc. Unknown device [11bd:0051]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 32 (1500ns min, 22000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
	Region 0: Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

The chips used by this card are mostly supported by the linux V4L and DVB drivers with the exception of the XC5000 which is being developed.

The card supports IR remote control input.

It appears that it may be also sold as the Yuan PG583Q. Yuan lists two models (PG583 and PG583Q) -- XC3028 (not QAM capable) and XC5000 (QAM capable) based maybe ?? The Yuan boards also have a connector of sorts on the back portion of the PCB.

Components Used

800i's components

• Xceive XC5000 (tuner & analog IF demodulator) [1]
• Samsung S5H1409 (digital demodulator) [2]
• Conexant CX23883 (A/V decoder & PCI bridge) [3]
• Cirrus 5340 CZZ (audio ADC) [4]
• Atmel ATMLH726 (8-pin eeprom)

External Links

• Pinnacle product page