Hi, Am Montag, 07. Aug 2006, 10:15:31 +1200 schrieb Nick Rout: > > On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:47:24 +0200 > Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > $ su - > > Password: > > # ls -la /dev/v4l/vbi0 > > crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 224 1. Aug 19:50 /dev/v4l/vbi0 > > # mknod /tmp/myvbi c 81 224 > > # chmod a+rwx /tmp/myvbi > > # ls -la /tmp/myvbi > > crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 81, 224 3. Aug 20:36 /tmp/myvbi > > # scantv -n PAL -f europe-west -C /tmp/myvbi > > [...] > > vbi: open failed [/tmp/myvbi] > > open /tmp/myvbi: Invalid argument > > # dd if=/tmp/myvbi bs=8 count=1 2>/dev/null | wc -c > > 8 > > # > > > > AleVT works without complaint. > > What exactly is scantv scanning for when it scans the vbi device? Does > it find the teletext channels or something? > > If you are looking to scan for tv channels then i think you want the > video device, not the vbi device, like > > scantv -n PAL -f europe-west -c /dev/video0
As far as I understand it, the vbi device is needed to read the channel names from teletext. I suppose the scanning would work perfectly if only the vbi access could be skipped. This seems to be a Gentoo specific problem as the scan used to work on my old Debian. As I mentioned AleVT works, too. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
