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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Saturday, September 24, 2005 12:06:43 am | by DouglasBagnall | Revert |
| Older page: | version 6 | Last edited on Friday, September 23, 2005 4:09:37 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
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Some applications require a specific device name e.g. <tt>/dev/video</tt>, although this is probably not the desired behaviour and these apps will probably be modified in the future. If you are using an application that wants a <tt>/dev/video</tt> but your system only has a <tt>/dev/video0</tt> then you need to make a symbolic link.
The proper way to do this is with [UDev]. Create (or modify) a file called <tt>00_video4linux.rules</tt> in the <tt>/etc/udev/rules.d</tt> directory, with the following content:
<verbatim>
-# make a symlink to the first radio
device
+# make a symlink to the first video
device
KERNEL="video0", SYMLINK="video"
</verbatim>
Also known as [V4L].
