[mythtv-users] Assigning /dev/video device nodes

[Christopher Meredith]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Philip Shead <drinnen at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Christopher Meredith wrote:
>>
>> I have a DVB card and an HD-PVR. Both of them create a /dev/video#
>> device when initialized. But which device gets 0 and which gets 1 is
>> inconsistent from boot to boot. How can I specify which device should
>> take which node number?
>
> Having finally got around to fixing this for my wayward
> DVB cards the wiki has what you need,
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Device_Filenames_and_udev
>
>
> Now I just await a kernel version that returns my
> MSI TVAnywhere A/D to sanity  (or at least where it
> was in 2.6.28).

Thanks all. The udev aliases did the trick!