On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Michael Hunold wrote: > 2) We should make clear that the device > contexts regards the following IOCTLs, too: > > a) S_INPUT > b) S_TUNER > c) S_FREQ > d) S_AUDIO > e) QUERYCTRL > f) S_STD IMHO they belong into the device context to. New problem: How to handle sound? For the video-related settings it is quite clear: The driver will set them if the application goes to use the video hardware, i.e. capture image(s) with read() or STREAMON+friends. For audio it is'nt that obvious. There is - for example - no need to touch TV sound if you switch the video input to the camera temporarely to capture a image for your webcam... Gerd