[GEM-dev] [ pd-gem-Feature Requests-1792049 ] On Linux: open 1394 cams by number and [enumerate( list them

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Feature Requests item #1792049, was opened at 2007-09-10 19:32
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: On Linux: open 1394 cams by number and [enumerate( list them

Initial Comment:

It would be handy if it was possible to open DV/ieee1394 cameras using [device X( where X is a single digit.  Also, it would be nice if [enumerate( worked on GNU/Linux.

I think this could be implemented like it is in [comport] using a glob, and assigning index numbers to the glob results.  The glob would be something like "/dev/video* and /dev/dv1394/[0-9]*". This would also make it easy to make a working [enumerate(

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