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v4l camera indexing isn't necessarily accurate

Open ajaypillay opened this issue 9 months ago • 1 comments

For my webcam, this is what v4l2-ctl --list-devices shows:

Integrated Camera: Integrated C (usb-0000:00:14.0-4):
	/dev/video1
	/dev/video2
	/dev/video3
	/dev/video4
	/dev/media0
	/dev/media1

Currently, nokhwa_bindings_linux::query() shows multiple cameras (since the way the indexing is done is by parsing the /sys/class/... path) when in fact there's only 1 actual camera stream that can be accessed. The correct index is located in the file /sys/class/videoX/index. All of them indicate the correct index as 1. Index 0 is being used by Droidcam. As these aren't accessible streams to my knowledge, it might be worth condensing that.

ajaypillay avatar May 17 '24 10:05 ajaypillay