Klaus Schmidinger writes: > 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? Currently not. Since upcoming cards with decoder and V4L interface for those will need it too, should we add a call for this? In the DVB video device? We might also need something like this for audio. Ralph _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
