I have looked through 3 pages of questions and yeah im probably a dumbass and not seeing the answers i need so this is probably a repost! So i appologise now Okay so heres the deal, i bought a cctv drv card thingy for my pc.

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I installed it on my pc and its being seen by the device manager. I installed the software that came with it and it turns out that it only works with 95/98/xp. I have windows 8 pro 64bit with windows media centre installed. All i can find out what this software is, is that its called pico2000 (hope that helps) so i have done some searching on the net and found a program called 'btwdmdrvinstaller' whcih claimed to work. However this had around 60 different options of my cvard to choose from which i have been through and still this damn card isnt picking up any feed! So I turn to you all (and i have met some jolly good people in the past on here) and hope that someone can either help me or tell me what i am missing on the way with this. Am roundup: a vigil for mac. Surly this shouldnt be this hard in this day and age!

Once again sorry if this is a re-post. And if any more info is needed please let me know.

Bt878 Fusion 878a Mediastream Controller Driver For Mac Free

Contents. Overview/Features The Bt87x chip family were the direct successors of the popular family of ICs, and were used by many analog cards produced in the later part of the 1990's; which collectively help constitute the categorization. Brooktree Heritage When Brooktree was purchased by Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, the IC family continued to be referred to simply as Bt87x. However, Rockwell Semiconductor Systems was subsequently spun off from its parent company a few years later, and, under the new banner, the ICs would begin to be rebranded in marketing literature as being part of Conexant's Fusion family - i.e. They started to become referred to as the Fusion Bt878 and Fusion Bt879. When Conexant would later expand its Fusion lineup with an updated version of the Bt878, the ' Bt' part was no longer included in the newer product's nomenclature, and, instead, was released simply as the. Hardware Features The Bt87x chip's design is largely based upon the Bt848A video decoder but are upgraded to also include several audio capture capabilities (summarized in the table below and discussed in further detail later on).

Bt87x decoder family comparison Featured Bt878 Bt849A All of Bt848A's features (i.e. Composite, S-Video multi-standard Video Decoder and PCI bus master) ✔ Yes ✔ Yes Teletext support ✔ Yes ✔ Yes Audio in ✔ Yes mono ✔ Yes mono TV Audio ✔ Yes mono ✔ Yes stereo FM Radio - ✔ Yes stereo The Bt878 A/V decoder is a multi-function PCI device; having both a video and audio function that feature direct memory access (DMA)/PCI bus master support. ('function' is a PCI term.

Most PCI devices have only one of them.). Note: In Linux, the two available PCI functions for the chip are illustrated by the output of the lspci command, whereby one should be returned something like: 0000:03:04.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 0000:03:04.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) The DMA controller architecture design could be described as a small and pretty nice programmable RISC engine. Essenitally, you basically build into the device driver software a very simple program (very RISC - has about 8 instructions) that copies data between the BT848 and your RAM. The two functions have different memory mappings although they have many similar registers - e.g. The I²C bus is only available via the video function, while the I²S bus is only available via the audio function.

The chip supports both 'software' and 'hardware'. Software means that you write to the SCL & SDA lines directly and the CPU/driver has to time everything itself. Hardware means you give it a byte or two to read/write and it goes away and does that and gets back to you with an interrupt when it's done. Unfortunately the hardware I²C does not support writing just one byte (the address byte but no data) so you cannot do safe write or read probes of I²C client addresses (it could confuse an I²C client that does not have sub addresses - e.g. Audio Support The bt878 and bt879 (the latter no longer in production) include a high-frequency Analog to Digital Converter, supporting both 8 and 16 bits audio at 448000 samples per second, for capturing broadcast audio, as well as line level and mic input sources.

In addition, the chips also feature a digital audio interface. The chips have a digital audio packetizer and FIFO buffer for DMA audio transport across the PCI bus to the host PC. Analog Audio The bt878 audio ADC has three inputs - STV (Sound TV), SML (Sound Mic/Line), and SFM (Sound FM), though the FM input would be relevant only to the 879 chip. On the 878 datasheet, the relevant pins are 94, 98, and 100. These ADC pins serve the following functions: Pin Signal I/O Description 100 STV I TV sound input from TV tuner.

98 SFM I FM sound input from FM tuner. 94 SML I MIC/line input. Digital Audio The digital audio interface consists of three input pins: ADATA, ALRCK, and ASCLK. Pins 87-89 This interface can be used to capture 16-bit I²S style digital audio or generic non-continuous packet synchronized data Pin Signal I/O Description 89 ASCLK I/O (Audio Serial Clock) Bit serial clock. 88 ALRCK I/O (Audio Clock) Left/right framing clock. 87 ADATA I/O (Audio data) Bit serial data. External links.

Bt878 Fusion 878a Mediastream Controller Driver For Mac Pro

has some detailed information about the 878A pinout and how to use it to collect arbitrary analog data. The information should also apply to the 878 in regards to page's discussion.