Brian Jackson wrote:
> Use udev to give your ivtv cards consistent names like dev/v4l/
> ivtv0...1...2...etc
>
> --Brian Jackson
>
> On Feb 1, 2007, at 5:35 AM, Radu Cristescu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I used to use ivtv-detect to find out, within a script, which
>> device is
>> the MPEG encoder. I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.16 to 2.6.18 and the
>> 0.8 driver series no longer ships with it (changelog says it was
>> removed). Parsing the kernel log each time I want to find out which
>> devices are the MPEG encoders (especially with multiple PVR cards)
>> doesn't look like the way to go. Any other ideas?
>>
>> I used to parse the output of this command with the 0.6 driver series:
>> ivtv-detect | egrep '^card:|/dev/.*: MPG encoding'
Use:
v4l2-ctl --info --device=/dev/videoX if you need to know which cards
have an encoder, When it has "Sliced VBI Output" you know it has an
encoder, eg:
v4l2-ctl --info
Driver info:
Driver name : ivtv
Card type : Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350
Bus info : 0000:02:0d.0
Driver version: 2050
Capabilities : 0x010700F3
Video Capture
Video Output
VBI Capture
VBI Output
Sliced VBI Capture
Sliced VBI Output
Tuner
Audio
Radio
Read/Write
v4l2-ctl --info
Driver info:
Driver name : ivtv
Card type : WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1)
Bus info : 0000:06:08.0
Driver version: 2050
Capabilities : 0x01070051
Video Capture
VBI Capture
Sliced VBI Capture
Tuner
Audio
Radio
Read/Write
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