[mythtv-users] PVR350 video out very slow (Nvidia way better)

[Hanno 'Rince' Wagner]

Hiho,

Emmanuel Hislen schrieb am 06. Februar 2004:

> Now I feel like an idiot...

don't - you just missed a minor thing

> How do I know if /dev/video16 is the right one?
> 
> Here's what I have:
> 
> [root at fantasio dev]# ls -l /dev |grep video
> drwxr-xr-x    2 manu     manu         4096 Jan 23 01:28 video
> crw-------    1 manu     root      81,   0 Sep 15 06:40 video0
> crw-------    1 manu     root      81,   1 Sep 15 06:40 video1
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 23 01:28 video1394
> -rw-rw----    1 manu     root      4444096 Feb  6 21:14 video16
> crw-------    1 manu     root      81,   2 Sep 15 06:40 video2
> crw-------    1 manu     root      81,   3 Sep 15 06:40 vide
>
> Note every time I do the dd test video16 gets bigger. Looks like nobody 
> is reading/removing content from it.

Look careful. video0 is a character device, video1 too (you see that
"c" at the beginning of the line, where usually is nothing or a "d"
like directory? This is the flag for a character device). but
video16 is a simple file - and this is wrong.

try the following: remove /dev/video16 (this is just a file, I think
with the mpeg-data in it) and type the following:

mknod /dev/video16 c 81 16

This should create the character device /dev/video16. After that,
retry your tests.

Ciao, Hanno
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