It would be nice to see some provision for handling the type of
video data. For example, most analog video decoders can do
either raw VBI or sliced (teletext, CC, etc.). If there *is* a way to
specify this, I would like to know.
-- Peter
> > is there a reason why only one program at time can read from /dev/vbi?
The
> > way I see it is being opened in RDONLY mode.
> >
> > The reason I ask is that I would like to have one program to read
caption
> > information, and have other program to read channel/program info from
VBI
> > device.
>
> Till now there has not been a standard vbi API for v4l. It seems now
> that the v4l2 vbi API has been adopted for the 2.4 series kernels
> though, so I assume that this will be in place soon. The v4l2 vbi spec
> allows for multiple capturing opens, each open selecting only the vbi
> lines that it needs.
>
> Coincidentally, I started coding vbi support for bttv2 last night, and
> hope to have it available early next week. (This will include the
> multiple capturing opens stuff).
