Paul McKellar wrote:
On 8/5/05, Marty Ravell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've noticed that I only have a single device showing for 'll /dev/video?'.
i.e. /dev/video0
Is this normal? Jarod;s guide and various other sources seem to suggest that
there should be several video devices?
The system is PVR-350, P4, Intel Board, FC3, Jarod's guide. TV-out via the
350.
that is normal enough. depending on what you use for a device system.
udev or devfs or however you have them set up. you only need one for
each device, and often enough the additional ones people have aren't
actually linked to anything substantive.
i still feel like a newbie but that is what i've gathered. hope it helps.
That's true, but the PVR-350 actually has several devices. There's the
encoding capture device (/dev/video0), the decoder output device
(/dev/video16), the raw audio capture device (/dev/video24), the raw
video capture device (/dev/video32), and the raw video display device
(/dev/video48). In addition, there's the radio tuner device
(/dev/radio0), the vertical blank interval (CC/Teletext/WSS/etc) capture
device (/dev/vbi0), the procesed vbi device (/dev/vbi4), the vbi display
device (/dev/vbi8), and the framebuffer device /dev/fbX (where X is may
vary depending on whether you have other framebuffers in the
system--i.e. through the video card).
However, not having these other device nodes will not cause any
problems--it only means you can't access those devices. So, the lack
of, for example, a raw video capture device node is probably not a
concern for anyone.
How do you get the device nodes? The right answer is to update/modify
your udev scripts (I'm pretty sure FC3 is running Linux 2.6 and using
udev for device node creation). However, there are many other
approaches (such as putting the appropriate mknod command in your
startup scripts) for those who don't care whether it's right and don't
care to learn how udev works (although, I've got to say, you won't
appreciate the beauty of udev until you've learned how it works :).
Note, also, that some distros use scripts that create the video devices
in places like /dev/v4l or /dev/video4linux or ... --and often with a
link using a more "traditional" device name (like /dev/video0) (So, they
may be there--just not where you're looking.)
Mike
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