[vdr] Re: How das GRAB work?

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On 11.08.2004 21:57, Sascha Volkenandt wrote:
> Am Freitag, 6. August 2004 12:59 schrieb Matthias Schniedermeyer:
> > > > "ERROR: /dev/video0: Device or resource busy"
> > > >
> > I tought that only the "old" drivers/vdr used /dev/video0 ((nearly) 4
> > years ago when i first used vdr it used /dev/video0. Later the drivers
> > changed to the dvb/adapter<x>/... files so i thought that video0 was the
> > same(tm) as the /dev/video0)
> 
> Apparently, /dev/video0 is the device node for a video4linux driver that 
> delivers (vdr reads it) decoded full frames, and /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0 is 
> the device that receives (vdr writes it) the encoded video data, so the 
> difference is quite big :-). I know that those dvb files were once named 
> differently, but I don't think it ever was /dev/video0.

It was /dev/videoX

This is from VDR 0.68

dvbapi.c:#define VIDEODEVICE "/dev/video"





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