v4l2 doesn't support multiple opens. Only the driver supports it. I am using bttv based (bt878) "PixelView PlayTV Pro" tv tuner card. "bttv-0.9.11" driver support mulitple open of "/dev/video0".
With Regards, S.Suriya Mohan.
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 Ville Syrj�l� wrote :
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:17:50PM +0200, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
> Quoting suriya mohan:
> > Hi,
> > From the DirectfB Video Providers Module I came to know that "
> > The
> > Video4Linux Video provider can let /dev/video "play" directly to
> > any DirectFB surface via DMA Capture". How to use V4l API's in
> > DirectFB ?
>
> Unfortunately, you can't access the v4l file descriptor. The video
> provider is used in conjunction with the Linux DVB API which includes
> tuning etc.
>
> If you want to access the v4l API directly you would have to Release()
> the video provider, do e.g. analogue tuning, recreate the v4l provider.
Does v4l2 support multiple opens?
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