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

[Philip Shead]

Christopher Meredith 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?

Having finally got around to fixing this for my wayward
DVB cards the wiki has what you need,

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Device_Filenames_and_udev


Now I just await a kernel version that returns my
MSI TVAnywhere A/D to sanity  (or at least where it
was in 2.6.28).