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== USB Video ==
== USB Video ==
For more information about how to write an usb video driver, review the article's history (see the history tab at the top of the page).


Information is also contained in the similar DVB wiki article: [http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Development:_How_to_develop_drivers_for_USB_based_devices How to develop drivers for USB based devices].
see [[Em2820]] for more information about how to write an usb video driver


== What we need from you to get your USB Device work ==
== What we need from you to get your USB Device work ==


==== Requested Devices ====
==== Requested Devices ====

Please don't make requests in the wiki -- instead, inquiries about your device should be made to the mailing list.

please see http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/devices.php for a list of supported/unsupported usb TV tuners



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Best thing would be to donate(prefered of course for the work :) or send your device to a developer for a few weeks
Best thing would be to donate(prefered of course for the work :) or send your device to a developer for a few weeks

==== Working Devices ====

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|<b>Device</b>||<b>Status</b>
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|Pinnacle PCTV USB 2.0||supported (Need support for PAL-M) /* please follow the description on this site and mail the parsed output to mrechberger@gmail.com */
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|Terratec Cinergy 250 USB 2.0||supported
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|MSI Vox USB 2.0||supported (res. <= 640x480)
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|Hauppauge WinTV USB 2.0||supported, included in Linux kernel 2.6.18
|}
Hercules smart TV USB 2.0 supported

==== Requirements ====

this site explains how to get empiatech devices or similar running with linux by applying changes which might only work with your device.

==== USBView output ====

[[Image:usbview.png]]


We also need the linux usbview output of your device


==== Get usbsnoop for windows ====

The latest supported version is 1.8 you'll find it at the bottom of that website '''not ontop of it'''

* WinXP/Win2K
http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/usbsnoop/

http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/stats/get.php?location=../usbsnoop/sniff-bin-1.8.zip

if the link is down, you can also ask in IRC

*UPDATE*

there's a new version available for Vista:

* http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/UsbSnoop/default.htm

==== Set up usbsnoop and start sniffing ====

Attach the sniffer to your device and start logging:

[[Image:sniffer06.png]]

Finally start up your TV application again, everything will slow down after it's started but it's worth doing it that way hardware analyzers cost a few thousand dollars... please sniff about <b>200 - 300 MB!</b> it will be easier for analyzing.

More information about the what you can do with that logfile can be found on the [http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php/Usbreplay USBReplay projectsite]

== Log2Bin ==

There's a small script in my repository (http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mrechberger/v4l-dvb) called v4l_experimental/em2880/log2bin.pl. It is capable of parsing the usbsnoop.log logfile and extract the isoc data and print it in a binary format. I used it for analyzing a sniffed windows usbaudio stream.

Usage (for example):
perl log2bin.pl < usbsnoop.log | aplay --format=S16_LE --rate=9600

(you might have to change the endpoint address in the perl script to get it work like that):

perl log2bin.pl < usbsnoop.log | mplayer -rawvideo on:yuy2:w=352:h=264 -

try various width and height values, you might also have to adjust the format (yuy2 in that case)

== USB Replay ==

USB Replay supports replaying usbsnoop logfiles in linux using usbfs.
Currently USB Control Messages and USB Bulk Messages are supported

http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php/Usbreplay

Latest revision as of 16:38, 21 December 2008

USB Video

For more information about how to write an usb video driver, review the article's history (see the history tab at the top of the page).

Information is also contained in the similar DVB wiki article: How to develop drivers for USB based devices.

What we need from you to get your USB Device work

Requested Devices

Please don't make requests in the wiki -- instead, inquiries about your device should be made to the mailing list.

please see http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/devices.php for a list of supported/unsupported usb TV tuners


Device Status
Genius TVGO u202 video/audio works (720x288 non interlaced half frames, Audio USB Audio) - no tuning yet
ALI Corp 1.3M Pixel USB 2.0 Bad quality video yet
uli-m9205 Only dvb-t support.
Aiptek USB DualCam
Hauppauge WinTV USB 2.0 -- AUDIO!
SIIG AVTuner Pro with guidance, I might be able to get it working. Note that lsusb reports an em2821 but the em28xx driver doesn't recognize it.
MSI Mega Sky 580 Both versions are supported. (0db0:5580/1 Micro Star International)
Club3D ZapTV-240M ? (10fd:1513 Anubis Electronics, Ltd) Also known as MSI Digi Vox Mini II
ADS DVDxpressDX2 ? (06e1:0709 ADS Technologies, Inc)
ADS VideoMPX USB
Adaptec Gamebridge 1400


SSIG AVTuner Pro -- send an email to the v4l mailinglist or to a v4l developer, we can't help you unless we have any contact data.

Best thing would be to donate(prefered of course for the work :) or send your device to a developer for a few weeks

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