[mythtv-users] Assigning /dev/video device nodes

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Sat Jan 29 18:06:01 UTC 2011


On Saturday, January 29, 2011, Christopher Meredith
<chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a DVB card and an HD-PVR. Both of them create a /dev/video#
> device when initialized. But which device gets 0 and which gets 1 is
> inconsistent from boot to boot. How can I specify which device should
> take which node number?

I use udev-created symlinks on my backend, so for example, my pvr-250
is accessed by mythbackend as /dev/pvr250. I believe there are
assorted howto bits in the wiki.

--jarod

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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