About Viewcast Osprey 450e

Hi there,

Over the years I've used successfully several products from Viewcast to do video capture, most notably Osprey 100, 210, 230 and 440, as part of the Boxtream Free Software project (http://boxtream.unice.fr)

The 440 is a 4-inputs video capture card based on BT878, and it works flawlessly for my needs.

Now when building an instance of Boxtream based on a motherboard with PCI express bus, I've simply thought that the Osprey 450e was identical to the 440 but with a PCI express slot, and purchased one without asking first...

Unfortunately I was wrong, this card is based on a different chip than the 440, and it doesn't seem to be supported.

Here's the output of lspci -vv :

07:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG Device 0720
Subsystem: Viewcast COM Device 0032
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 15
Region 0: Memory at df3e0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Region 1: Memory at df3f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [58] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset-
DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal+ Unsupported-
RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr+ NoSnoop+ MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr+ FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend-
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Latency L0 unlimited, L1 unlimited
ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
Capabilities: [100] Device Serial Number 00-11-3c-20-07-00-00-00
Capabilities: [400] Virtual Channel <?>

08:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG Device 0720
Subsystem: Viewcast COM Device 0032
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 14
Region 0: Memory at df2e0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Region 1: Memory at df2f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [58] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset-
DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal+ Unsupported-
RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr+ NoSnoop+ MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr+ FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend-
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Latency L0 unlimited, L1 unlimited
ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
Capabilities: [100] Device Serial Number 00-11-3c-20-07-00-00-00
Capabilities: [400] Virtual Channel <?>

The commercial specs are available from :

http://www.viewcast.com/products/osprey-cards/osprey-450e

Is there any chance this card will be supported by V4L in the future (or is it already) ?

I'm not a kernel developper, but I'm more than willing to help and/or test if I can be useful.

Thanks in advance for any help

Jerome Alet

KernelLabs has written a driver for both the 240e and 450e (in cooperation with ViewCast) and it is currently in testing (with plans to be merged upstream). Keep an eye on the KernelLabs blog for more info.

http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/

Cheers,

Devin

Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
http://www.kernellabs.com

Thanks so much for this !

bye

Jerome Alet