Handling multiple video devices

[Sander Hoentjen]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 20:13 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I have three video devices that may be in use at any time on this box.  One is 
> a pci video-capture card, so always present.  The other two are webcam and 
> usb tv tuner.  The problem is that every package that can handle either the 
> webcam or the tv tuner looks for video0.
> 
> tvtime's menu has an entry for changing the input, and I thought that should 
> do it, but absolutely nothing happens if I click on that.  I haven't had any 
> more luck with amsn + webcam either ::config::setKey "webcamDevice" "$device:$channel- as long as it gets video0 it is happy, 
> but it won't talk to anything else.
> 
> There must be some way to configure these to talk to video*.  I've had some 
> luck with getting udev to track the webcam connection, so if I could point 
> amsn to /dev/webcam, that would be solved.  Similarly I could build a rule 
> for the tuner, but it's no good if I can't get the software to use it.
> 
> Has anyone managed this sort of situation?
> 
> Anne
> 
Hi Anne,

in aMSN you can type:
::config::setKey "webcamDevice" "/dev/webcam:0"
in the status log (CTRL + s on contact list)

Sander