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First post, by Almoststew1990

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For some reason I like messing with analogue capture cards and I picked up this thing on eBay for £6.

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Enbiginated link: https://i.imgur.com/1L0Hr5R.jpg

The photos were blurry on the listing and I was hoping there would be more on the card to identify it when it got here.

I've put a few of the chip names into google but all I get are dodgy generic driver download sites....

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Reply 2 of 6, by mdog69

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A google for "cei isa video tuner" (without the quotes) led me to https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BTTV/mfgr.html
which contains:

CEI (Chartered Electronics Industries Pte Ltd [CEI] [FCC ID HBY]) --- TV Tuner - HBY-33A-RAFFLES Brooktree Bt848KPF + Phili […]
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CEI (Chartered Electronics Industries Pte Ltd [CEI] [FCC ID HBY])
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TV Tuner - HBY-33A-RAFFLES Brooktree Bt848KPF + Philips
TV Tuner MG9910 - HBY33A-TVO CEI + Philips SAA7110 + OKI M548262 + ST STV8438CV
Primetime TV (ISA)
acquired by Singapore Technologies
now operating as Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing
Manufacturer of video cards is listed as:
Cogent Electronics Industries [CEI]

A further bit of googling yielded this https://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf/download … =O&term=MVM121A
which contains a circuit diagram of a video capture card that vaguely looks like yours, except that your board has two RAM devices, and the design has two banks of three.

HTH

Reply 3 of 6, by Almoststew1990

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It's FCC number is HBY33A-V9.

A bit of rummaging through Google using that FCC number (I didn't know it was an identifier or anything otherwise I would have done this originally!) also identifies the card as a Prime Time TV like mdog69's quote above.

Stason's got me covered:

https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/graphics-cards/C … ME-TIME-TV.html

I might just stick it in my Windows 98 PC and see what happens.

However Googling Prime Time TV ISA card doesn't throw up any drivers or anything.

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Reply 4 of 6, by austinham

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Almoststew1990 wrote on 2020-06-01, 13:13:
It's FCC number is HBY33A-V9. […]
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It's FCC number is HBY33A-V9.

A bit of rummaging through Google using that FCC number (I didn't know it was an identifier or anything otherwise I would have done this originally!) also identifies the card as a Prime Time TV like mdog69's quote above.

Stason's got me covered:

https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/graphics-cards/C … ME-TIME-TV.html

I might just stick it in my Windows 98 PC and see what happens.

However Googling Prime Time TV ISA card doesn't throw up any drivers or anything.

what will you be using the card for?

Reply 5 of 6, by Almoststew1990

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The plan was to mess around with capturing S-Video footage of... things, and I was intruiged by the VGA looking port - is it for VGA input? Is it a pass through of some kind? Now I've found the card on Stason it's definitely an output and the port next to it is described as "Loop back".

I thought it would keep me occupied for a little while (and it is succeeding so far)

Edit - here are the ports:

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Reply 6 of 6, by wiretap

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Usually on tuner cards, they carry the workload of video decoding because the PC was too slow. The VGA feature header was connected to the graphics card to feed the video memory data directly to the capture card so the real-time video could be overlayed onto the monitor.. the VGA of the capture card would then output both your computer desktop picture with the overlayed video stream.

Edit: per the TH99 documentation, it shows the VGA port as video output, so that makes sense for video overlay from the other inputs.

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