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dcfighter

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Registered: 2008-08-11

Posts: 23

USB DVR installation

Hello,

I've bought a cheap DVR, similiar to famous EasyCap (but based on some other chipset).
The hardware is not faulty and runs fine under Windows.
As far as I know the module for original EasyCap is already in kernel, but it doesn't work with my device.

lsusb shows this:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1b71:3002  
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 13ee:0003 MosArt Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

I only have usb mouse plugged in at the moment, which means that DVR is Bus 001.
There's no file named video0/1 etc. in /dev

Any suggestions? Booting into Windows just to use one piece of hardware is really annoying.

utopyand

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 33

Re: USB DVR installation

I found something at http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Easycap

USBTV007 EasyCAP

This EasyCAP is based on a single UTV007 labeled chip.

lsusb reports

    Manufacturer: Fushicai
    Product: usbtv007

Components Used

    Single chip: UTV007 A614231.1 1136L1BK
    Inscriptions on the board: FSC VIDEO DVR

Indentification

# lsusb
Bus XXX Device XXX: ID 1b71:3002

Making it work
There is a very experimental (for testing purposes only) userspace driver for this device:
http://github.com/memeruiz/usbtv007

utopyand

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 33

Re: USB DVR installation

Something is going
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/10/381

Last edited by utopyand (2013-06-11 19:47:59)