Testing Your Board

Verifying Picolo U4 H.264 PCI-104 Board Installation

In the /proc folder, a text file named U4H264PCI104Info lists the detected Picolo U4 H.264 PCI-104 boards. For example, if one Picolo U4 H.264 PCI-104 board has been detected, the U4H264PCI104Info text file contains the following line:

CardCount=1Card/0/VFSType=U4H264Card/0/Version=2.0.0.3 Card/0/BoardType=PicoloU4H264Card/0/SerialNumber=U4000012Card/0/PartNumber=00001234-56

Notes

Checking the Video Signal Presence

The following procedure checks the presence of a valid PAL video signal on the video input 1 of the Picolo U4 H.264 PCI-104 board:

The file content is displayed as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE VisualSource SYSTEM "config.dtd">
<VisualSource version="1.0">
    <Verbose Immediate="true"/>
    <VideoPresent ReadOnly="true" Immediate="true">
        <DetectedVideoStandard_PAL ReadOnly="true" Immediate="true"/>
    </VideoPresent>
    <VideoStandard_PAL/>
    <Contrast Immediate="true">100</Contrast>
    <Brightness Immediate="true">0</Brightness>
    <Saturation Immediate="true">100</Saturation>
    <Caption0 Immediate="true">
        <String></String>
        <TopLeft/>
    </Caption0>
    <Caption1 Immediate="true">
        <String></String>
        <TopLeft/>
    </Caption1>
    <Mask0 Immediate="true">
        <X>0</X>
        <Y>0</Y>
        <W>0</W>
        <H>0</H>
    </Mask0>
    <Mask1 Immediate="true">
        <X>0</X>
        <Y>0</Y>
        <W>0</W>
        <H>0</H>
    </Mask1>    
    <Mask2 Immediate="true">
        <X>0</X>
        <Y>0</Y>
        <W>0</W>
        <H>0</H>
    </Mask2>
    <Mask3 Immediate="true">
        <X>0</X>
        <Y>0</Y>
        <W>0</W>
        <H>0</H>
    </Mask3>
</VisualSource>

To check the presence of other standard video signals, the DetectedVideoStandard_xxxx XML element in the config.xml file is set in accordance with the video signal standard detected (i.e. xxxx = NTSC or CCIR or EIA).

Displaying Live Images

The following procedure requires a system with a graphical environment (kde, gnome...).