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
