The IVC-200 is a video capture card with 4 separate composite
video inputs. The ability to capture multiple video streams in a
single PCI card is very attractive where the number of spare PCI
slots is limited. Further details on the card itself are available
from ICP
Electronics Australia.
The card is based on Brooktree bt878 chips which use the bttv
kernel module under Linux. Unfortunately the current driver in the linux
kernel (version 2.4.20) did not work with this card. Similarly, the
binary driver module supplied with the card (for kernel version
2.4.18) did not load successfully in our systems. Changes have
been devised to the existing bttv driver code to enable the IVC-200
card to operate correctly. The resulting patch has been submitted to the bttv
module maintainer for possible inclusion in a future release. In the
meantime, patches against some different kernel versions are available
below.
