Re: dvgrab wait for device
Carl Karsten <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.kino.devel |
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Dan Dennedy<[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Would it help if this was limited to being told what -card was in use? or guid, or something to avoid the scan? > 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. No prob - Just getting your advice is appreciated. -- Carl K ------------------------------------------------------------------------------