Linux driver for DC10plus/LML33/Buz video capture cards V 0.7

November 20, 2000.

Thanks to Wolfgang Scherr, who was the first maintainer of this driver, we now have support for Iomega Buz cards again. There are no changes for current DC10plus and LML33 cards users (besides that dc10.[ch] files have been renamed to zoran.[ch]), however I would like to ask them together with owners of Iomega Buz cards to download and try this driver. Please, read file README from this distribution before driver compilation and installation.

The driver is Video4Linux compliant and contains extensions to provide a full motion MJPEG compression and decompression in hardware using Zoran chipset features. Since this driver initially was a derivative from the driver for Buz Iomega cards written by Dr. Rainer Johanni,
http://www.johanni.de/munich-vision/buz/, they both have compatible API. I hope that this API will become a part of V4L standard.

Since version 0.5 the driver compiles and works with 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels. (I used 2.2.14, 2.2.16 and 2.4.0-test6 kernels for testing). Please, be aware that some Linux distributors supply modified kernels with their distributions and with such kernels the driver compilation may fail. Unfortunately, I don't have time and other resources to keep the driver compatible with every Linux distribution, therefore, only official Linux kernels from www.kernel.org and its mirrors will be supported.

To download the driver and for other news and updates, please, visit

http://www.cicese.mx/~mirsev/Linux/DC10plus/

Supported Formats
=================

Card: DC10/DC10plus LML33/Buz

TV standard: NTSC/PAL/SECAM NTSC/PAL

Format:            Square pixel              CCIR.601
                   640x480 NTSC              720x480 NTSC
                   768x576 PAL/SECAM         720x576 PAL

Frame rates: 30 frames/60 fields per second NTSC
25 frames/50 fields per second PAL/SECAM

The driver can be used by two programs at the same time. Using XawTV you can watch what you are recording or playing back with lavtools. (please, see warning note in README file supplied with the driver distribution regarding this feature).

Good luck.

Serguei Miridonov
[email protected]


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