bktr: how to terminate tuner-program, while keeping audio on?

[Danny Pansters]

On Friday 02 May 2008 15:46:01 Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I would to change a bit a functionality of the tuneradio.c utility
> ( http://freebsd.monkey.org/freebsd-multimedia/200310/msg00045.html )
>
> I mean: I would to have audio still on, after the program itself has been
> terminated already. It isn't any problem under Linux, using v4l(2) - but,
> unfortunately, under FreeBSD: each time, when the program has been
> terminated, the audio automatically gets muted.
>
> Is it part of functionality of bktr driver - or perhaps one can suppress
> the behaviour like described above (but different way, than just keeping
> the application still "on")?

It's in the driver, yes. Of course you can code a small capture application 
that doesn't really do anything with the video data, but merely keeps the 
device open. Or patch the driver for your purpose, should be one line.

Dan