[linux-dvb] Re: Multiple opens on /dev/video

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Chapman
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 4:49 pm, Matthias Weingart wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Try starting xawtv _before_ starting VDR. > > VDR 0.80 tries to open /dev/video upon startup, and continues without it > > if it fails to open it. > > Why do you open /dev/video on startup

[linux-dvb] Re: Multiple opens on /dev/video

2001-06-12 Thread Matthias Weingart
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Try starting xawtv _before_ starting VDR. > VDR 0.80 tries to open /dev/video upon startup, and continues without it > if it fails to open it. Why do you open /dev/video on startup? Vdr 0.8 is only running with Dvb0.9 and dvb0.9 does not have /dev/

[linux-dvb] Re: Multiple opens on /dev/video

2001-06-08 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
"Marcus O.C. Metzler" wrote: > > Harald Lipphaus writes: > > Hi all together, > > as far as i understand, one of the benefits of the newer 0.9 driver is > > the ability to open the video device in multiple concurrent > > applications. > > But how can i manage to do this? When i try to start