| Hans Verkuil | 1c1e45d | 2008-04-28 20:24:33 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Some notes regarding the cx18 driver for the Conexant CX23418 MPEG |
| 2 | encoder chip: |
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| Hans Verkuil | 86d674a | 2008-06-28 14:57:30 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | 1) Currently supported are: |
| Hans Verkuil | 1c1e45d | 2008-04-28 20:24:33 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| Hans Verkuil | 86d674a | 2008-06-28 14:57:30 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | - Hauppauge HVR-1600 |
| 7 | - Compro VideoMate H900 |
| 8 | - Yuan MPC718 |
| 9 | - Conexant Raptor PAL/SECAM devkit |
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| 11 | 2) Some people have problems getting the i2c bus to work. |
| Hans Verkuil | 1c1e45d | 2008-04-28 20:24:33 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | The symptom is that the eeprom cannot be read and the card is |
| Hans Verkuil | 86d674a | 2008-06-28 14:57:30 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | unusable. This is probably fixed, but if you have problems |
| Matt LaPlante | 19f5946 | 2009-04-27 15:06:31 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | then post to the video4linux or ivtv-users mailing list. |
| Hans Verkuil | 1c1e45d | 2008-04-28 20:24:33 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
| Hans Verkuil | 86d674a | 2008-06-28 14:57:30 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | 3) VBI (raw or sliced) has not yet been implemented. |
| Hans Verkuil | 1c1e45d | 2008-04-28 20:24:33 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | |
| Hans Verkuil | 86d674a | 2008-06-28 14:57:30 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | 4) MPEG indexing is not yet implemented. |
| Hans Verkuil | 1c1e45d | 2008-04-28 20:24:33 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | |
| Hans Verkuil | 86d674a | 2008-06-28 14:57:30 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | 5) The driver is still a bit rough around the edges, this should |
| Hans Verkuil | 1c1e45d | 2008-04-28 20:24:33 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | improve over time. |
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| 24 | Firmware: |
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| Hans Verkuil | 1a3932e | 2008-06-28 20:57:30 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | You can obtain the firmware files here: |
| Hans Verkuil | 1c1e45d | 2008-04-28 20:24:33 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | |
| Hans Verkuil | 1a3932e | 2008-06-28 20:57:30 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/cx18-firmware.tar.gz |
| Hans Verkuil | 1c1e45d | 2008-04-28 20:24:33 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | |
| Hans Verkuil | 1a3932e | 2008-06-28 20:57:30 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | Untar and copy the .fw files to your firmware directory. |