/dev/video ? how to select video device

[Raigedas]

i had very hard time compiling and installing zm on debian. now it looks that zm processes start.

but what about video device? how to select the right one? i have inserted working DVR (pico) card into PCI slot. and "lspci" shows it.

in my system there are these device files:

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/dev/video
/dev/video0
/dev/video1
...

which one is real? is there any simple way to check? something like:

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cat /dev/video

i cannot run any X application to check the device, because i do not have X installed on my server.

and what about kernel? i guess that there is no video support compiled in my kernel. do i need it?

[Kushnirenko]

which one is real? is there any simple way to check? something like:

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cat /dev/video

If you do cat /dev/video0 | hexdump -C you should see a countinuoulsy running output.

and what about kernel? i guess that there is no video support compiled in my kernel. do i need it?

You may want to check v4l project. Almost certainly you need CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=m in your config.


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