Trevor Boicey <tboicey@xxxxxxx> writes: > Is there a simple programmatic way to retreive data from /dev/vbi > regardless of what is happening on /dev/video? It just works ... > I am using some example code I found on the net (called ccdecoder, > I think it's now abandonware) but it requires that another application > be using /dev/video for characters to appear on /dev/vbi. Shouldn't happen. Which driver is this? Maybe it is just the fact that you have to tune some station before you get any usable data on /dev/vbi? > I'm fine with this, except I run into loading issues, where the > encoder running on /dev/video will drop frames, and then the > characters in the captions for those frames are also lost. That shouldn't happen, the video + vbi streams are not linked in a way that video frame drops also mean vbi frame drops. Unless the frame drops happen due to input bad signal of course ... Gerd -- Weil die späten Diskussionen nicht mal mehr den Rotwein lohnen. -- Wacholder in "Melanie"
