Am Freitag, 16. Juni 2006 11:45 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: > An application that uses the LinuxDVB driver can access the > DVB devices via /dev/dvb/adapterN/* (N = 0, 1, ...). However, > when it wants to, for instance, capture the current image on > a device (like VDR with its GRAB command), it needs to access > /dev/videoK, where 'K' is a number that is not directly related > to the 'N' mentioned above for the DVB device. > > So VDR has to do some guessing on which /dev/videoK device might > belong to the /dev/dvb/adapterN device. This is getting particularly > problematic if there are also other /dev/video devices that have > nothing to do with any DVB devices. > > Is there a defined way in which an application can query a DVB > device for its related /dev/video device? > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb Hello, as more and more distributions are switching to udev, and udev automatically creates device like /dev/dvb0.frontend0 and also /dev/dvb0.video0, switching the applications to use these devices could simplify things alot. I'm using a patched vdr which does this, and so I don't have to configure udev or use any scripts. S. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
