Pinnacle PCTV Pro
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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:
Bugs
- Sound: Needs to be redirected using sox
- Remote control, needs some configuration
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 (bttv)
- Analog demodulator: MSP3410D-B4 (msp3400)
- TV tuner: Temic 4002 FH5 (also possibly Philips)
- FM radio chip (PRO only): MSP3410
- Supports 16:9-format (?)
- Resolution: 768x576 and 720x576 (PAL)
The card has no on board sound AD, so an external cable (supplied) connects the sound from the sound output on the card to a generic sound input (usually found on the main board).
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