Problems with three cameras

[Ben Wolsieffer]

Originally Posted by virtuald

Unfortunately, it looks like at the moment OpenCV won't allow using devices other than /dev/videoX. I've patched OpenCV and pushed a pull request to the OpenCV repo, hopefully they'll take it and it'll work in 3.2.

To work around this problem, we manually resolve the symlink and parse the index from the resolved filename (/dev/videoX), which is then passed to OpenCV.

[virtuald]

Originally Posted by lopsided98

To work around this problem, we manually resolve the symlink and parse the index from the resolved filename (/dev/videoX), which is then passed to OpenCV.

Nice! Well, you won't have to do that anymore if you apply my PR to your opencv build.