On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 02:15:47PM +0200, wm4 wrote: > > I admittedly just assumed that v4l2:///dev/video/... would work > > currently. If not, that sounds like something that can and should > > be fixed. > > However as a convenience feature, I think it is good that /dev/video > > just ends up picking the v4l2 input, because in almost all cases > > that would be the desired behaviour. > > As a user, I wouldn't really expect that this works. Rather, I'd assume > I'd have to do something special to get the program to use video. > With current ffmpeg, you have to specify _both_ the "special > thing" (the demuxer) _and_ the video device, which is a bit of a WTF.
Hm. Haven't looked, but there should be mechanisms for the device to specify a demuxer to use. Unfortunately I don't have the right hardware to test any of this. > As I said, using a special protocol (like tv://) would be a nice > alternative, which can also include automatically selecting the video > device (for the right platform!), but maybe I'm spoiled by the MPlayer > way of doing things. I misunderstood what you meant by that earlier. Such a special protocol that doesn't need /dev/video magic would probably be a good idea. But it's kind of unrelated to this (if you want a special video device, just being able to specify it is IMHO nice). _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel