Failed to open over 16 video devices

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson TX2
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Hi there

We found that to decode a video stream and obtain the decoded data we need to create 2 instances of decoder for handling on TX2, not knowing the reason though, and meanwhile v4l2 seems to limit the number of video devices under 16.

Unfortunately we need to process 8 input streams at the same time and render 1 output stream, and so have to create 8 x 2 = 16 decoder devices and 1 encode device, totally 17 devices. Right, we need exactly 1 more video device to run the whole process but could not…

libv4l2: error attempting to open more then 16 video devices

Is there any possible that we could use only 1 decoder for each input stream to save 8 devices, or any way to skip the limitation from v4l2?

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It is limitation of libv4l2. Please refer to
[url]https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1020755/jetson-tx1/mmapi-can-t-decode-more-than-8-video-streams-at-the-same-time/post/5196704/#5196704[/url]

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Dane

We modified the v4l2 library like your post and it works now. Thanks!