Re: dvgrab wait for device
Dan Dennedy <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.kino.devel |
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Carl Karsten<[email protected]> wrote: > if there is no device when dvgrab is first run, it aborts. Yet if it > is streaming I can unplug the device and plug it back in, and the > stream continues. If there were some way to get dvgrab to just wait > for a device, that would be great. Or if someone can replace the > execvp(dvgrab with the C code from dvgrab... then I can take that off > my list of things to look into :) Hmm, well, there can be multiple Firewire buses on your system, and dvgrab looks for a device across all the buses to see which bus to use, which is required to acquire a libraw1394 handle. You would have to add some loop around that with a limited retry. I am rather busy at the moment, and must put this on my rather long todo list unless someone else comes up with a patch. -- +-DRD-+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------