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Date:      Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:43:10 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mark Tinguely <tinguely@casselton.net>
To:        achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com, tinguely@casselton.net
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Zoneminder and multichannel cards
Message-ID:  <200710051443.l95EhAOV066689@casselton.net>
In-Reply-To: <200710051718.09589.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>

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>  Just an additional silly question:
>
>  Wouldn't allowing more than 1 processes to access readonly /dev/bktr0,
>  effefctively solve the problem?
>
>  Is that hard to accomplish?
>  Does it make sense?

The BT878 can only capture from one input at a time. Allowing multiple
accesses to the driver to allow multiplexing of the inputs could be
done; it just moves the complexity from the application to the kernel.

--Mark Tinguely.



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