[mythtv-users] .... video outputs / inputs??

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue Nov 25 13:53:21 EST 2003


On Tuesday 25 November 2003 01:24 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 November 2003 10:15, Jelle Kalf wrote:
> > I have a hauppauge PVR250 REV1.
> >
> > I have /dev/video0 and /dev/video32 ...
> > What's /dev/video32 for ?
>
> If I were to venture a guess (which I am), I'd say it was a virtual
> framebuffer device similar to the PVR-350's /dev/video16.  The Rev1
> PVR-250 has the same MPEG decoder that the 350 has, but it lacks the
> TV-out.  I believe the ivtv folks are planning on eventually supporting
> this as a virtual framebuffer to do HW decoding, while your main video
> card handles the TV-out.
>
> Just a guess; I don't think it's really supported yet.

It's the (mostly non-useful) yuv capture device.

Isaac


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