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I have a PICO2000 card but the program does not see the card. What do I need to do?

Answer:

We have tested the program with a freeware driver that works with all capture cards based on CONEXANT 878a chip. Please follow the following steps to properly install and configure your capture card: *

First of all, please download the following software:

The free, universal btwincap driver, Btinstaller.exe. (By Eduardo José Tagle btwincap.sourceforge.net)

Also you can download a zip file which contains files required to install driver by hand if installer did not work.

A BtSpy application - the custom card profile generator.

FALL BACK TO A CLEAN SYSTEM STATE

First, let's get your system back to the state it was in before you started messing with things. Whether you are currently using the PICO Star Imavision driver, the btwincap driver, or some other Bt8x8 driver, you need to make every last remnant of these drivers go away. Let's try the following:

Begin by uninstalling any/all third party surveillance software

Uninstall the current driver from your control panel hardware tree (you've probably got an audio driver and a video driver. Uninstall both of them).

Run the btwincap installation utility, Btinstaller.exe

When prompted, select the UN-install option, the installation utility will search your system for any Bt8x8 drivers and delete them.

Reboot

INSTALL THE BTWINCAP DRIVER

Now it's time to properly install and configure the btwincap driver so that it will work with your capture card.

Run the btwincap installation utility, Btinstaller.exe

Select the install option this time around.

Select Custom Card when asked for a card type.

Load the BtSpy report.

Finish the installation.

Reboot and verify that the following two items show as correctly installed in your control panel hardware tree (i.e. no exclamation points next to either):

Conexant Video Capture

Conexant Audio Capture

To verify that your drivers actually work, run amcap.exe. Verify that you can see all four camera inputs, one at a time, using this utility. Note that you cannot view more than one camera at a time with the application.

NEXT STEPS TO GET ACTIVE WEBCAM WORKING

Add a new camera.

Select Capture Method - "Direct Show".

Choose "Conexant's BT PCI Capture" as Video Device.

To capture video from another video source on the same card:

Add a new camera.

Select Capture Method - "Direct Show".

Choose "Conexant's BT PCI Capture" as Video Device.

You should now see a second drop down box "Video Source" that shows different camera inputs to choose from.

• By courtesy of Andy ejtagle@tutopia.com

Other software unconfirmed existance...

• avermedia software

dvr cards on the market

kodicom, geovision, avermedia, pico and magic radar