bktr and kodikom 4400R

[Mark Tinguely]

>  Hi i just bought a clone of kodikom 4400R from ebay and i have not managed to get
>  any video out of it.
>  The system detects the 4 chips on the card. In the same machine i also have a single chip linuxmedialabs card
>  which works good for over a year. 
>  The 4 chips are detected as /dev/bktr0 - > /dev/bktr3, and the lml (previously /dev/bktr0) now as /dev/bktr4
>
>  My question is that whether i have a foundamental problem with the card or should i keep trying.

The kodicom 4400 has 4 Brooktree capture chips, a transparent PCI bridge
and a video crossbar.

The patch programs the crossbar so you can route the video signal from
one of the 16 inputs to a particular capture chip. many versions of this
card has 4 BNC video inputs, they are crossbar inputs 0-3. Additionally
there is also set of riser pins for all 16 inputs. The patch intially
programs the crossbar so input 0 goes to the first capture chip, etc.

once the input is selected, use any bktr-aware capture program.

--Mark.