Le jeudi 02 septembre 2004 à 20:16 +1000, Craig Southeren a écrit : > Where is the genericity in only being able to specify devices by using a > string that is not used in any other video-related program, and may not > be present, consistent or even usable as name? As far as I can recall, > xawtv does not use "friendly" names for device selection (but may allow > them to be displayed). > > The string in question is a optional and non-unique attribute that is > associated with a device. While it is very useful, it is not really > suitable as an identifier. > > My thinking is that devices should be identified using the unambiguous > numbering system assigned by the operating system. For Linux, this means > /dev/video0, /dev/video1 etc. For each of those devices, there may (or > may not) be other useful identifying information that can be presented > to the user in order to help them locate the desired device. > > But requiring the user to identify device by solely by using a > descriptive text description is as useful as having to change > directories by requiring the user to select "WDC WD1200BB-00FTA0, ATA DISK drive" > instead of "/dev/hda" That's why the plugin has to be changed to support opening devices both with friendly and non-friendly names (and actually it should already be able to do that following the code I have read, that's just openh323 that prevents to do it). Listing both in the list of available devices is the wrong approach to fix the problem as it breaks GUIs like GnomeMeeting. I never said there was no problem, I said the current way of fixing it is wrong. That's my last message to that thread. -- _ Damien Sandras (o- GnomeMeeting: http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ //\ FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org v_/_ H.323 phone : callto:ils.seconix.com/dsandras seconix com
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