Hi, On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 18:14, Bernhard Praschinger wrote: > That card is using some well known IC's like SAA7187, ZR36050 for the > video. > And some less (at least for me) known IC's: ADSP-2105, SAA7187, ZR36015, > Philips SAA 7145, Fast Viola.
The zr36015 is a raster-to-block converter. I don't know what that means ;-), but the datasheet is available online: http://pdf.searchdatasheets.com/pdf/167/167514.pdf I'd say that it's a video frontend similar to the zr36016. According to the datasheet, it actually is, but without extended colorspace conevrsion routines. fortunately, we don't need those. :). Maybe one of the others is a colorspace convertor anyway. The zr36050 is really a plane JPEG block compressor, it needs special input, no digital input from i2c video decodes such as the saa7110. I cannot really see if they're (register-location-)compatible or not, I need the full datasheet for that (the above is just page#1). I suppose not. The saa7187 is a video encoder, we already have a driver for that (saa7185-compatible), same for the zr36050. The philips saa7145 is a PCI chipset, it performs functions similar to the zr36067, and the linux kernel has no code for that. I do have a datasheet for this thing on one of my computers. I don't think I have time to develop a full new driver for this thing, not at the least because I don't even have such a card. I got the datasheets from someone hoping that I'd develop a driver either way. ;). ADSP-2105 is a memory/processor thingy, it needs no programming afaik. fast viola is a music chip. I don't know what it does. The ad chip is the same as you'll find on the DC30+. I have datasheets. Writing a driver is still somewhere on my TODO list, but not very high because I generally use my soundcard's line-in anyway. ;). I'm missing a video decoder here. Since you mentioned the saa7187 twice, I suppose one of them is actually the video decoder and you miswrote the number. ;). > Does anybody know of a linux driver for that card ? Or any other hints > if that card is still usable, or only a pice of HW ? There's no driver to my knowledge, at least no in the Linux kernel tree. I don't think there's a driver for any saa7145-based card out there right now. Once you found someone to write a v4l2-capable saa7145 driver for you, it should be easy to get this thing to work. The rest is just glueing it into existing systems such as i2c-video-decoder/-encoder and our videocodec layer. Until then, it's "just a piece of hw"... Ronald -- Ronald S. Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
