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.htm) The Pico Card & 3rd
Party Apps |
Configuring the Infamous “Pico
Card” with Third Party Software
The
goal of this document is to help you properly
install and configure your Pico card to work with
modern, WDM driver capable, surveillance software
packages. While documentation for specific parts
of the overall installation procedure does exist.
With the possible exception of this document, some
kind of instruction to tie the individual pieces
together to get a complete working system does not
exist. Consequently, it is very easy to get
yourself into trouble during the installation.
I’m going to start with the assumption that
you have already tried to get your system working,
have not been successful, and you are now
searching the internet high and low for someone
who has experienced and solved the problem you’ve
got. Hopefully this document will help you.
Before you begin, verify that you have the
following software:
1. The free, universal
btwincap driver from http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/
a.
Download the driver installer, the miscutils
package, and, if you want to create your own BtSpy
report, the BtSpy application
2. A BtSpy
report
a. The BtSpy report at the end of this
document should work just fine for you
b. If
you are running Win2k or WinXP, I do not believe
that you can generate the BtSpy report yourself.
This may no longer be true.
3. A third party
surveillance package known to support multiport Bt878
capture cards
a. Here are a couple of
examples
i. http://www.supervisioncam.com/
ii.
http://www.fgeng.com/
FALL
BACK TO A CLEAN SYSTEM STATE
First, let’s
get your system back to the state it was in before
you started messing with things. Whether you are
currently using the PICO Star Imavision driver,
the btwincap driver, or some other Bt8x8 driver,
you need to make every last remnant of these
drivers go away. Let’s try the following:
1.
Begin by uninstalling any/all third party
surveillance software
2. Now uninstall the
current driver from your control panel hardware
tree
a. You’ve probably got an audio driver and
a video driver. Uninstall both of them.
3. Now
run the btwincap installation utility,
Btinstaller.exe
4. When prompted, select the
UN-install option
a. The installation utility
will search your system for any Bt8x8 drivers and
delete them
5. Reboot
As you proceed
with the procedure laid out in this document, and
you notice that things are not working as
described, then a complete re-install of your
Windows OS may be in order. I would strongly
consider typing the magic words “format c:” and
start all over. It is the only sure way you’ll get
your system back to a clean
state.
INSTALL THE BTWINCAP DRIVER
Now it’s time to properly install and
configure the btwincap driver so that it will work
with your Pico card. It wouldn’t hurt to read the
documentation on the btwincap web page at this
time.
1. Run the btwincap installation utility,
Btinstaller.exe
2. Select the install option
this time around
3. Select Custom Card when
asked for a card type
4. Load the BtSpy
report
5. Finish the installation
6. Reboot
and verify that the following two items show as
correctly installed in your control panel hardware
tree (i.e. no exclamation points next to
either):
a. Conexant Video Capture
b.
Conexant Audio Capture
To verify that your
drivers actually work, run amcap.exe found in the
miscutils package. Verify that you can see all
four camera inputs, one at a time, using this
utility. Note that you cannot view more than one
camera at a time with the
application.
INSTALL THIRD PARTY
SURVEILLANCE SOFTWARE
Now it’s time to
install your favorite surveillance application,
but there is a catch. Getting any modern
surveillance application to work with just one
camera is usually not a problem. Thanks to the
Windows Driver Model (WDM), most applications
these days will work. The problem occurs when you
try to add your second camera.
In order to
support multiple input capture cards, the
surveillance application in question must be
specifically written to do so. Basically, the
application must be written to know how to access
multiple cameras from the same WDM driver. Note
that this is not a driver problem.
Follow
these steps to get your application working:
1.
Install the application as you normally
would
2. After installation, begin the
application specific procedure for adding a new
camera
3. At some point, you should be
presented with a list or drop down box of
potential camera drivers to choose the video
source from.
a. Choose the WDM driver labeled
“Conexant’s BT PCI Capture”
i. Some apps label
this as a WDM driver while others call it a
DirectShow driver
b. Do NOT at any time choose
any driver labeled as Video for Windows or
VFW
c. Do NOT at any time choose any driver
labeled as a WDM or VFW wrapper or mapper
d. To
summarize, Conexant WDM or DirectShow = Good,
while VFW or anything else = bad. .htm)
4. You should now see a second list
or drop down box that shows 4 different camera
inputs to choose from.
a. Choose from one of
the four selections
b. If you are not able to
select between the four camera inputs on your card
at this point then your driver is not installed
correctly!
5. Verify that you have successfully
set up your first camera
6. Now repeat this
procedure for your second camera
a. It is
during this step when you will find out if your
application supports multi input capture
cards
b. If you get an error message or
otherwise cannot see the video feed from your
second camera then the application you are trying
to use likely does not support multi input capture
cards
7. If adding your second camera was
successful, repeat this procedure, if needed, for
your other two cameras.
8. Congratulations.
You’re Voyeur …er… Surveillance System is
done!
I can’t stress enough how important
it is to choose the correct driver from the list.
Only WDM drivers support multi input capture
cards. While choosing the wrong driver may work
just fine for your first camera, that’s as far as
you will get.
SUMMARY
Hopefully, you should have a working system by
now. If you are still having problems, try
formatting your hard disk and start completely
over. Most problems seem to stem from not having
previous drivers uninstalled correctly, not
installing the new drivers correctly, or a
combination of both. Just prior to re-installing
your btwincap drivers, back up your entire hard
disk. You will then have a point to fall back to
should things become hosed again.
If you
still need help, e-mail me at
You can view my own surveillance system at http://bauerhaus.dyn.dhs.org/surveillance/index.html
My
DSL upload rates are a bit slow so at times you
may have to be patient. .htm) In time, through the use of some fancy
JavaScript, I will set the page up to pre-load
several images at a time. That should help. Feel
free to look at the source code.
BTSPY
REPORT
Paste the following text into a
file call “btspy report.txt”.
### BtSpy
Report ###
General
information:
Name:TE104 - UCC4 Ver.
2.0
Chip: Bt878
, Rev: 0x00
Subsystem: 0x00000000
Vendor:
Gammagraphx, Inc.
Values to MUTE
audio:
Mute_GPOE : 0xf00000
Mute_GPDATA:
0xf00000
Has TV Tuner: No
Number of
Composite Ins: 4
Composite in
#1
Composite1_Mux : 2
Composite1_GPOE :
0xf00000
Composite1_GPDATA:
0xf00000
Composite in #2
Composite2_Mux :
3
Composite2_GPOE :
0xf00000
Composite2_GPDATA:
0xf00000
Composite in #3
Composite3_Mux :
1
Composite3_GPOE :
0xf00000
Composite3_GPDATA:
0xf00000
Composite in #4
Composite4_Mux :
0
Composite4_GPOE :
0xf00000
Composite4_GPDATA: 0xf00000
Has
SVideo: No
Has Radio: No
Add here
all the comments you want!
If your card can
decode Stereo TV , and
your card does NOT use
one of the following
chips, you will have to
"peek" the right
GPDATA and GPOE values to
enable Stereo and
SAP audio. The driver already
supports the
DPL3518, MSP34xx, PT2254, TDA7432,
TDA8425,
TDA9840, TDA9850, TDA9855, TDA9873,
TDA9874,
TDA9875, TEA6300 and TEA6420 and does
not require
extra information to drive
them!
If you are able to get your card
working using
this program , please , mail me
this file (with
any extra comments you would
like to add) to:
, so I can add native support
to your card in
the next driver release! |
27 Apr 2004 21:19 |
Leonardo Santos
More 3rd party SW |
Hello! First of all, thanks for the
excellent tutorial, it worked perfectly! I had
already given up to make my board work! Thanks a
lot.
But this post is to inform that the 5.0
version of active webcam (http://www.pysoft.com/ActiveWebCamMainpage.htm)
works too, and AWC has a lot of remote access
features, so I recommend it.
And if someone
make the board work with VideoLan
client/server
(www.videolan.org), please post
here! I'm trying to have a complete free-software
solution. Cheers! |
10 Aug 2004 19:32 |
Dave in Australia
Thanks! |
Just wanted to say thanks for your
instructions - got me up and running when I
thought it was a lost
cause!
ta.
Dave Sheludko,
Melbourne,
Australia
email me direct if you spit out
the pipes:
dsh|e|ludko at po|box.com |
25 Aug 2004 06:43 |
bbhs
Pico2000 manual |
Has anybody got a link for the manual
for this. |
30 Aug 2004 11:24 |
bbhs
Pico 2000 manual |
Manual found:-
http://www.camtechvideo.com/pico/Pico2K_UserManual.pdf |
30 Aug 2004 12:08 |
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