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BKTR(4) Device Drivers Manual BKTR(4)

NAME

bktr — Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 and Pinnacle PCTV video capture driver

SYNOPSIS

device bktr


device iicbus
device iicbb
device smbus

DESCRIPTION

The bktr driver provides support for PCI capture and capture on low cost, high performance boards. The driver is based on the Matrox Meteor driver and uses the same API. The bktr driver should support most video cards based on the . Also supported are most video cards. Furthermore, the driver supports if the tuner supports it.

The driver currently supports the following features:

PCI to PCI dma transfer
clipping
yuv
rgb16
rgb24
rgb32

On the supported cards, tuners and other components are interconnected with an I2C bus. The Brooktree848 chips act as a master device on the bus to control them. Therefore, iicbus(4), iicbb(4) and smbus(4) controller declarations are mandatory to activate bktr support.

The following kernel parameters may be used to further configure the driver:

specifies the number of contiguous pages to allocate when successfully probed. The default number of pages allocated by the kernel is 216. This means that there are (216*4096) bytes available for use.

options BROOKTREE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT=BROOKTREE_PAL
options BROOKTREE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT=BROOKTREE_NTSC
One of these options can be used to set the default video format for the driver. This fixed random hangs and lockups with the VideoLogic Captivator PCI card.

The following sysctls may be used to further configure the driver:

sysctl hw.bt848.card=nnnn This can be used to override the card make which was detected at boot time. ‘nnnn’ is set to an integer from 1 to 23 taken from the following table:

MIRO
1
HAUPPAUGE
2
STB
3
INTEL
4
IMS_TURBO
5
AVER_MEDIA
6
OSPREY
7
NEC_PK
8
IO_GV
9
FLYVIDEO
10
ZOLTRIX
11
KISS
12
VIDEO_HIGHWAY_XTREME
13
ASKEY_DYNALINK_MAGIC_TVIEW
14
LEADTEK
15
TERRATVPLUS
16
IO_BCTV3
17
AOPEN_VA1000
18
PINNACLE_PCTV_RAVE
19
PIXELVIEW_PLAYTV_PAK
20
TERRATVALUE
21
PIXELVIEW_PLAYTV_PRO_REV_4C
22
Bt848_MAX
23

sysctl hw.bt848.tuner=nnnn This can be used to override the tuner make which was detected at boot time. ‘nnnn’ is set to an integer from 0 to 16 taken from the following table:

NO_TUNER
0
TEMIC_NTSC
1
TEMIC_PAL
2
TEMIC_SECAM
3
PHILIPS_NTSC
4
PHILIPS_PAL
5
PHILIPS_SECAM
6
TEMIC_PALI
7
PHILIPS_PALI
8
PHILIPS_FR1236_NTSC
9 /* These have FM Radio support */
PHILIPS_FR1216_PAL
10 /* These have FM Radio support */
PHILIPS_FR1236_SECAM
11 /* These have FM Radio support */
ALPS_TSCH5
12
ALPS_TSBH1
13
MT2032
14
LG_TPI8PSB12P_PAL
15
Bt848_MAX
16

HARDWARE

The bktr driver supports video capture cards based on the Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 chips, as well as Pinnacle PCTV cards, including:

  • AOpen VA1000
  • AVerMedia AVerTV Studio
  • AVerMedia TF/FM-98
  • ATI TV Wonder VE
  • Hauppauge WinCast/TV
  • Hauppauge WinTV-Go-FM
  • Hauppauge WinTV-pci
  • Hauppauge WinTV-radio
  • Intel Smart Video Recorder III
  • KWORLD PCI TV Tuner
  • Miro PC TV
  • Pinnacle PCTV Pro
  • Pinnacle PCTV Rave
  • PixelView PlayTV PAK
  • PixelView PlayTV Pro (rev 4C, 9D)
  • SIGMA TV II
  • STB TV PCI Television Tuner
  • Super TV Tuner
  • TerraTec TValue
  • V-Stream XPERT TV-PVR 878
  • Video Highway XTreme
  • VideoLogic Captivator PCI

FILES

/usr/ports/multimedia/fxtv
A TV and Camera display program utilizing the bktr driver - requires that The X Window System and The Ports Collection also be installed.
/usr/ports/audio/xmradio
An FM Radio Tuner for cards which have an FM Radio tuner fitted - requires that The X Window System and The Ports Collection also be installed. It also requires or the port.

SEE ALSO

meteor(4)

HISTORY

The bktr driver first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS

This driver is based on the work of Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu>, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com>, Roger Hardiman <roger@FreeBSD.org> and a bunch of other people. Support for Pinnacle PCTV Rave cards was added by Branko Lankester <branko@euro.net>.

January 18, 2006 Debian