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Fakes made in China

The cards are fakes and made in china. The software supplied only works with Win98 and screws up Audio in WinXP ...Yikes I did find the download for Pico2000 Win2000/WinXP which is from the original manufactures site. They are aware that this is going on and are trying to help those that got duped, but there is a cost 40.00 ...Makes me sick that I have to pay more. Thinking I may just trash this one and buy a different one. Geo looks good. I would probably have stuck with this card and paid the 40.00 but the site says if you upgrade your computer or move the card to another computer the Key they give you is tracked and will not work anymore..grrrr Anyhow, Im done venting and Thank You again for the speedy reply. Sincerely, Brandie

The Pirated DVR Cards

With most of the pirated DVR Cards, features that are advertised no longer function, remote viewing does not work, and even causes system failures in windows.

• Avoid systems that are coming directly from China (Often these cards are sold for $0.99 - $40.00 on Ebay and other venues
• Ask for the version and Brand of the software - Most companies selling you pirated cards will not list the actual brand of the software, or list the software as FREE

Brands to watch out for:

• PICO 2000
• DICO
• Peaqe
• GeoVision (There are some real cards - but you will need to check with actual Manufacturer for correct license numbers/card designs)
• AnyKeeper
• Magic Radar

Look at the picture...When the picture for the card shows a blank recordable CD-R - The software is obviously pirated...run the other way!

Look at the price - Due to the volumes in the Surveillance Industry, a Legitimate DVR Card and software is NEVER $0.99 - $40.00! That does not even cover the cost of good DVR Card hardware, let alone the development time for the software! Cheaper is not better!

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Linux

PICO2000 DVR card

The cheapest DVR card. With all 4 channels capturing you'll get around 2 fps. Available under lots of different brand names, like "Star Imavision Video Capture", etc... Generally stated as "Pico2000 compatible"

Configuration

in /etc/modprobe.conf

For one card:

 options bttv card=77 tuner=4 radio=0 triton1=0 vsfx=0 autoload=0 

For two cards:

 options bttv card=77,77 tuner=4,4 radio=0,0 triton1=0 vsfx=0 autoload=0 

And so on...

Also, if during bootup your system hangs for 5 minutes or more at "Setting clock (utc)": add this before options bttv

 options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 

DICO800

Uninstall the existing drivers for the video capture card & the Pico2000 Peaque software aswell.

Download the Dico800 software & manual from the links below & install the drivers from the DICO drivers folder for you capture card. then do the auto run setup in the dico800 software you downloaded.

The TE104 4 Channel Capture Card aka The "Pico 2000" Card

This capture card is a 4 channel multiplexed card (25fps PAL and 30fps NTSC) which means that the 25/30 fps is split up between the 4 channels i.e. you get 30 fps TOTAL for all 4 video inputs.

These cards usually ship with Windows software called Pico 2000 or Peaqe which is identical to Pico2000 except for the name. The Pico 2000 software is reasonably functional but is terribly unreliable and as it was ripped off from Canadian company Novex there will be no fixes or updates to it. The streaming over the web also relies on active-X so is Windows only.

Linux: Under Linux the card works fine with the standard bttv drivers, I have card type set to 77 which works fine. (I'm using insmod option "radio=0 card=77 tuner=-1")

If you find the bttv driver takes a long time to load (a few minutes) add this option in your modules.conf file for loading the i2c-algo-bit module: options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1

• Motion (open source) - Absolutely rock solid and does everything. This is the one I am currently using.
• Zoneminder (open source) - Also looks to be a very good package, must get round to testing this.

Windows: If you are not using Pico 2000/Peaqe then first of all you will need to install the Open Source BT878 WDM drivers. The card works on the "Generic Brooktree Card with four Composite Inputs" setting.

• SupervisionCam (free download, 25USD registration)

I found that SupervisionCam did crash occasionally and the GUI isn't the best but it does offer a lot of features like running external programs and sending emails on motion detection. The motion detection isn't a patch on that in the Linux based Motion though.

• Video Site Monitor (free download, 39USD for full 4CH version) - not tested
• Gotcha! (free download, 379USD for full multicam version) - not tested
• Crime Catcher (free download, 49USD for full 4 cam version) - not tested
• Active Webcam (free download, 29USD for full version) - not tested

When it says "SECURITY KEY NOT FOUND" what it really means is...

When PICO 2000 says:

<SECURITY KEY NOT FOUND>

What it is REALLY saying is:

<I CAN'T SEE THE CAPTURE CARD>

So I am not going to run. Might seem simple to most, but it perplexed me for ages. Therefore, the answer is to:

1. Tediously disable EVERYTHING non-essential in the PC 2. Get the PICO card to work (which it did when everything else was disabled) 3. Then start adding devices one after the other until the PICO card stops working (Security Key Not Found etc., etc.)

That last device you added is the one causing the trouble in the first place. In my case an integrated INTEL NETWORK device on the motherboard. I disabled it in BIOS; got the PICO to work and then added a cheap PCI network card, which got me back online without upsetting the PICO.

Yet prior to discovering this problem, Windows XP Pro reported everything hunky dory. No yellow exclamation marks or red crosses. Even now I cannot understand how this INTEL NETWORK device was buggering things up because it was not sharing IRQ, I/O or memory address with the PICO. Oh well....Another Wndows mystery unsolved.

TIPS FOR ISTALLING AND RUINNING PICO 2000 VER. 1.8 WITH THE UCC4 4-PORT CAPTURE CARD FROM GAMMAGRAPHX INC. (WINXP PRO ROUTINE).

1. Put card in PCI slot 2. Restart the machine 3. Install drivers (Star Imavision Video/Audio capture) 4. Install PICO 2000 software. 5. Reboot the machine 6. Make sure you have FULL sharing enabled on file: c:\DSR-Video\

OTHER POINTS

1. The company that sold me this kit said I mustn't load the drivers because, if I did, the card wouldn't work. This is not true. The UCC4 card works with or without the drivers in Windows XP Pro. Without the drivers it seems to prefer IRQs 10 or 12 where it sits as <multimedia audio and video devices>. 'Course if you don't load the drivers, WINXP Pro keeps prompting you for them each time you reboot. So if you don't want the drivers you have to keep cancelling out the Add New Hardware Wizard. A pain in the ass really.

2. There's a very clever bloke who has kindly supplied WDM drivers and other utlitites for this card which allow it to work with any WDM compatible Windows capture program (I tried them with Windows Movie Maker and Ulead MSPRO 7 Video Capture and they worked fine and you can even capture directly to MPEG 2 with Ulead using the right CODEC).

Those drivers and some other stuff can be had here:

http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/download.html

These are Brooktree drivers which work with the UCC4 even though it says Connexant on the capture chip. Believe me. The Brooktree drivers work great. Meanwhile, BTSPy (also at the above URL) allows you to customise the card when installing the Brooktree Drivers. This allows any Windows program to access all four ports on the card (but so far I have not found a program that allows viewing them all at the same time). However, you can capture from up to four cameras individually by selecting the appropriate input. But no Quadding or multiplexing without the right software.

Nevertheless, BTSpy required that your UCC4 is working with PICO 2000 (or other multiplex software) before it can spy out your card's capabilities. So, in case your card isn't working, here's what BTSPy reported for my card (when I tested it with the DICO software, which I DID manage to get to work).

1. 1. 1. BtSpy Report ###

General information: Name:ucc4 ver. 2.0 Chip: Bt878 , Rev: 0x00 Subsystem: 0x00000000 Vendor: Gammagraphx, Inc. Values to MUTE audio: Mute_GPOE : 0x00f000 Mute_GPDATA: 0x000000 Has TV Tuner: No Number of Composite Ins: 4 Composite in #1 Composite1_Mux : 2 Composite1_GPOE : 0x00f000 Composite1_GPDATA: 0x000000 Composite in #2 Composite2_Mux : 3 Composite2_GPOE : 0x00f000 Composite2_GPDATA: 0x000000 Composite in #3 Composite3_Mux : 1 Composite3_GPOE : 0x00f000 Composite3_GPDATA: 0x000000 Composite in #4 Composite4_Mux : 0 Composite4_GPOE : 0x00f000 Composite4_GPDATA: 0x000000 Has SVideo: No Has Radio: No

Add here all the comments you want! If your card can decode Stereo TV , and your card does NOT use one of the following chips, you will have to "peek" the right GPDATA and GPOE values to enable Stereo and SAP audio. The driver already supports the DPL3518, MSP34xx, PT2254, TDA7432, TDA8425, TDA9840, TDA9850, TDA9855, TDA9873, TDA9874, TDA9875, TEA6300 and TEA6420 and does not require extra information to drive them!

If you are able to get your card working using this program , please , mail me this file (with any extra comments you would like to add) to: ejta...@tutopia.com , so I can add native support to your card in the next driver release!

The above setup and drivers (Brooktree) won't make PICO 2000 work, but they'll allow the UCC4 to work with any WDM application (like Windows Movie Maker or Ulead Video Capture etc., etc.). In these you will be able to access each port on the card and capture from each one idividually (but NOT all four at the same time, as you can with PICO 2000).