I bought a 8 channel video cctv capture card on ebay, it is a PCI card. When I type: sudo lshw, here are all the channels that I see.

• Philips Semiconductors Saa7130 Video Broadcast Decoder

Hey guys, I'm running Fedora core 6, and recently installed a KWorld Tv tuner that uses the Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 chipset. I installed tvtime via yum from the livna repo, and I get not picture or audio.

It seems to be using the saa7134 driver. I have cameras hooked up to /dev/video0 and 1, but I see no video under zoneminder. Is there anything else that I need to do, edit? For the driver to work?

The cameras are wired, and am using a $50 sony cam that I picked up on ebay, as well, for now just want the 4 cameras to work and the other 4 channels are for later if I decide to upgrade. Anyone know how to fix this? Running Ubuntu 9.10 on an Intel machine, 1.8processor with 512MB of ram, but I can upgrade the ram to 2GIGs. Hooked up video cameras to channel /dev/video0 and video1, all that I am seeing is black and white lines (thin lines) no actual video, better than a blank black screen, but no luck yet. Instructions are also not written well, for example, this part here: $ sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf 1.

Shared memory settings changed for ZoneMinder (ZM) add this at bottom (128 MB) kernel.shmall = 134217728 kernel.shmmax = 134217728 These two values have to be on their own respective lines: kernel.shmall = 134217728 kernel.shmmax = 134217728 the way it is written, people will put it on the same line and that will never work, errors pop up. Still nothing for me, frustrated. Well, I figure everything out. I think I need a more powerful machine, the ones I got is 1.8 single core P4 with only 512 MB of ram, I can upgrade the ram to 2 gig, and the video card does not matter, because I have the machine boot to the command line, (slight Grub change), so that those resources are not used and I view it via the web browser on a different machine via WiFi (works pretty well)! I ended up reducing the fps to 12 frames per second at 640 x 480, works pretty good, just discovered how to fine tune the Monitor motion detection for each camera, pretty cool!

Philips Semiconductors Saa7130 Video Broadcast Decoder

Got 3 cameras working so far, 1 more to go and later I might do a few internal ones, so I know what my dogs are up to when I am not home, who did what:- ) The default of 30 fps or whatever it is, was too much the CPU was at 99% all the time, and the ZoneMinder web interface stopped working, but reducing it to 12 frames, does a pretty good job. I guess my question is, can ZoneMinder upload the video to an off site server at the same time as it is recording an event? Also, my capture card has little heat-sinks glued to all the chips, but it still gets pretty hot (am thinking on installing a fan to deal with that, so that cards life is not shortened). Glad to see things are working out for you. I've got a single camera hooked up right now; zoneminder shows nothing, and xawtv shows a black screen at a resolution that is far too high for this camera (camera is 768x494, display is 1280x732). I've worked with both Windows and Linux based systems and they are both a pain.

At least Linux provides detailed logs on everything going on in the system. Where did you place your modprobe.conf? I did a search for modprobe.conf using find and came up empty handed. Any other advice for tweaking this card?