How to release a busy resource
 

Hi,

I am using fedora when i run a command to watch live video in mplayer i get the error :

v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Device or resource busy
v4l2: ioctl set mute failed: Invalid argument
v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped.

any idea how to release the resource/device??

This is the terminal only Mplayer ?
or the fedora default Gnome-mplayer gui

is gstreamer being used ?
If so are the "good, bad, and ugly" plugins installed ?

or did you install the very old 2006 all codec package or the newer 2011 all codec

for Fedora 18 see the mjmwired page
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...l#mediaplayers

then go from there

yes i have the gstreamer running and i have the good, bad, ugly plugins installed.

actually i am trying to run stb tester an application for testing set top box

from their web page
http://stb-tester.com/getting-started.html
the very NEW version of "GStreamer" in the current fedora 18 / 19 is going to be way too new
see the referance"#2" for fedora18
fedora will install the new version by default as a dependency for any multimedia rpm needing it

there IS a fedora 18 repo on the suse openbuild service
http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...ter/Fedora_18/
it is advised to use that and install "stb-tester" using yum

i have all the required packages installed i wanted to know how to free the resource which is being used

what is the full command you are passing to "video for linux 2 " ?
it is telling you that a "Invalid argument" is being past