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

[James Miller]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Mike McMullin wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 11:16 -0600, 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?
>
>  udev is what you need to look into.  On my Ubuntu install the file
> is /etc/udev/rules.d/51-setup-video.rules.   I made that file and the
> extension is important!
>
> Contents:
>
> KERNEL=="video[0-9]*",ATTR{name}=="gspca",DRIVERS=="usb",NAME="video1"
> KERNEL=="video[0-9]*",ATTR{name}=="ivtv0 encoder
> MPG",DRIVERS=="ivtv",NAME="video4"
>
> Note: KERNEL== contains one line only the second definition is line
> wrapped.  I found the info for this oddly enough from an Ubuntu user
> when I was still running openSuSE.  The first line deals with my
> web-cam, gspca is the kernel module (incorrectly named AAMOF), the
> NAME="video1" tells the system which device name to use for this piece
> of hardware.

I did this about a year ago and posted a similar description to this list. 
If you search under me e-mail address you'll find it.

James

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