On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:54:02 -0800 "Daevid Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Followed the howto here: > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/BTTV.html > (which by the way is 5 years old) > > I have an old hauppauge bt878 card with 4 inputs on it. > > I have the video1 working fine, but how do I enable the other inputs? > They're all the same RCA kind. > > I ran the MAKEDEV script, but it didn't seem to make all the video* and vbi* > nodes other than the first one... > > I manually created the rest using the HOWTO as an example: > I don't know anything about nodes and all this stuff, so I guessed that the > 'c' number is the same as the ones that were created, and the number next to > that increments from the one created. > > daevid bin # ll /dev/video* > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Nov 27 19:42 /dev/video -> /dev/video0 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Nov 27 19:46 /dev/video0 -> v4l/video0 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Nov 27 20:36 /dev/video1 -> v4l/video1 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Nov 27 20:36 /dev/video2 -> v4l/video2 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Nov 27 20:36 /dev/video3 -> v4l/video3 > daevid bin # ll /dev/vbi* > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Nov 27 19:42 /dev/vbi -> /dev/vbi0 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Nov 27 19:46 /dev/vbi0 -> v4l/vbi0 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Nov 27 20:37 /dev/vbi1 -> v4l/vbi1 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Nov 27 20:37 /dev/vbi2 -> v4l/vbi2 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Nov 27 20:37 /dev/vbi3 -> v4l/vbi3 > daevid bin # ll /dev/v4l/* > crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 224 Dec 31 1969 /dev/v4l/vbi0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 225 Nov 27 20:35 /dev/v4l/vbi1 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 226 Nov 27 20:35 /dev/v4l/vbi2 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 227 Nov 27 20:35 /dev/v4l/vbi3 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 0 Dec 31 1969 /dev/v4l/video0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 1 Nov 27 20:35 /dev/v4l/video1 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 2 Nov 27 20:35 /dev/v4l/video2 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 81, 3 Nov 27 20:35 /dev/v4l/video3 > > > If I try to take a picture: > > /usr/bin/v4lctl -c /dev/video0 snap jpeg 320x240 > /home/dae51d/public_html/nokia_cam.jpg > /usr/bin/v4lctl -c /dev/video1 snap jpeg 320x240 > /home/dae51d/public_html/ittybitty_cam.jpg > > Then the first one works fine, but the second one is failing with: > > v4l2: open /dev/video1: No such device > v4l2: open /dev/video1: No such device > v4l: open /dev/video1: No such device > no grabber device available yes, you probably have one bttv device with a number of inputs. you need to switch inputs. they are usually called TV, Composite, S-Video etc. If there is more than one composite they might be called Composite-1, Composite-2 etc On the other hand they may be audio inputs? 4 composite inputs is rather excessive I would have thought. By the way which package does v4lctl come in? > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- [email protected] mailing list
