Hi, I too have noticed this behaviour. When the device is closed, it needs a little time (a second, or less) to clean up before it is re-opened. That hasn't bothered me, though, because I have a program thread that continuously captures and closes the device only once, at the end of all capturing. Maybe you could modify your program to do the same, otherwise allow a little time before you reopen the device. I'm afraid, I can't be of much help, as I am new to all this, as well. Hope this helps. /G ----- Original Message ----- From: <Preuss.t@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:34 AM Subject: problems with cleaning up after capturing... Hello! I'm currently working on an application(using svgalib)that starts capturing(v4l and bttv of course) from a Haupauge BT878 chip after a certain serial command... This works fine...but only once. When i captured once and i try to open the device again then i get the error message : "device or resource busy"! Maybe this is because of my poor cleanup routine. I only close the filedescriptor after the capture process. (I also tried to end caturing by sending VIDIOCCAPTURE via ioctl but this causes an error too... "Invalid argument") Can anyone solve this riddle? Here is the source code that runs in a thread... <snip>
