Forums/Bluecherry BC- series driver support/Hardware compression MPEG-4 / H.264 driver
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No Analog Video/Audio
Andrew
asked this on December 18, 2011 02:08
Hi,
I'm having a hell of a time trying to get a video feed to show up in my system. Here's my specs and what I've done.
Specs
- Gigabyte GA-Z68M-D2H Z68 Sandy Bridge Motherboard
- Bluecherry BC-H04120A PCIe
- Intel Core i3 2100T processor
- 4GB Ram
- 160gb Hard drive
Since the Sandy bridge chipset has video built in, I first installed my bluecherry card into a 1x PCIe slot and installed Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 i386. The Bluecherry DVR installed correctly with no errors, but when I connect using my client I get no video feed.
I thought perhaps the board being sandy bridge and being too new for Ubuntu 10.04 maybe it needed a dedicated graphics card. So I put a Nvidia 8600 GTS video card into the first 16x PCIe slot and moved the Bluecherry card to the other 2 remaining PCIe slots, but still no video after I re-installed everything.
I also tried Ubuntu 11.10. I compiled the driver from the github sources and installed Bluecherry DVR. Still no video.
Every time I've re-installed Ubuntu I run the diagnostic commands in command line, and what I typically get is:
dmesg |grep -i solo
[ 18.144559] solo6x10 0000:03:05.0: Probing Softlogic 6110
[ 18.144577] solo6x10 0000:03:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 18.953153] solo6x10 0000:03:05.0: Display as /dev/video0 with 4 inputs (1 extended)
[ 18.969035] solo6x10 0000:03:05.0: Encoders as /dev/video1-4
[ 18.969307] solo6x10 0000:03:05.0: Alsa sound card as Softlogic0
lspci |grep -i Bluecherry
03:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Bluecherry Device 5304
One time in Ubuntu 11.10 it actually said that it was Bluecherry BC-H04120A 4 port H.264 video and audio encoder / decoder
What's troubling is on some of the FAQ answers, like this (http://support.bluecherrydvr.com/entries/235174-using-the-bluecherr...) it says that dmesg should say that it's Initializing the tw28xx chip, but I've never seen that appear when I type in that command.
I've also tried testing with the commands:
- mplayer -tv device=/dev/video1:outfmt=mjpeg tv://
- ffmpeg -i /dev/video1 test.mpg
- /dev/video1 in VLC Capture Stream
I always just get a black box with a timecode on it.
I've also done the basic troubleshooting -- trying to hook up the camera to video inputs 2,3,4. Re-attaching the breakout cable, checking the libavcodec installations.
Tomorrow I'm going to pick up another camera to test with, because I'm at my wits end here. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks.
Comments
Andrew,
I can't immediately think of why this wouldn't be working. Did replacing the camera resolve the issue? You can connect any analog device (tv, DVD player, etc) to the card and it will display the video, in case you don't have another camera.
Thanks
I discovered it was my source, got it up and running now, thanks.