Zoneminder and multichannel cards

[Achilleas Mantzios]

Στις Παρασκευή 05 Οκτώβριος 2007 17:24, ο/η Mark Tinguely έγραψε:
> Achilleas Mantzios asks:
> >  So what i cant understand is:
> >
> >  1) How bktr understands about METEOR_DEV0, METEOR_DEV1, METEOR_DEV2,=20
> >  METEOR_DEV3, how does it distinguish the 4 channels in LMLBT4M?
>
> The device driver uses this ioctl to reprogram the input on the BT878.
>
> >  2) How could i arrange smth similar, provided its not very time
> > consuming? ( i am trying to do all this at home hours, and they are
> > extremely limited). If you could have an idea on how to (easily)
> > programmatically demux the inputs, i'd be grateful.
>
> I don't know how you are switching input relative to capture.
> Fields mixing from other frames can also be DMA overflows in the capture.
>
> In my opinion, if you have a working Linux version that you are happy with,
> I suspect it will take more time tweeking the FreeBSD driver than you want
> to spend. If you want to make some serious updates to the bktr driver,
> the project could use a bktr maintainer.

Thanx.
Did you read my last question about allowing more than 1 processes to 
access /dev/bktr0?
Does it make any sense at all for my case?
If that was possible i would have
/dev/bktr1stCam -> /dev/bktr0, 
/dev/bktr2ndCam -> /dev/bktr0,
/dev/bktr3rdCam -> /dev/bktr0,
/dev/bktr4thCam -> /dev/bktr0,

so that zoneminder would run 4 instances of zmc,
which i can deal with, and effectively solve my problem,
(although not in a fancy way).

What do you say?
>
> --Mark Tinguely.

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Achilleas Mantzios