Re: Grabbing frame off of capturing video

[Alan Cox]

> No.  videodev.o allows only one process to open the device.  Any chance
> that this can be changed?  Alan?  I'm thinking about allowing multiple
> opens on bttv, but this needs quite a few changes in videodev.o.  Most
> serious problem is that I need some way to keep per filedescriptor data
> to get this right.

Change it but keep a flag so the videode enforces it for legacy drivers for 2.4

> Even if this limitation is removed there is still no sane way to allow
> multiple processes to use capture in parallel.  Use video overlay and
> capture in parallel would work throuth...

Most boards cant capture and overlay together


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