Webcams are classified as 'video' devices instead of 'capture'

[Nicola Heald]

Prior to last night's release, webcams seemed to be coming in under the 'capture' category. Now they're classed as 'video' and so they're appearing under the list of video cards. Makes it very difficult to accurately profile a model's available video devices and group units correctly when one of the devices is usb and could be removed or plugged in by the user at any time.

[Marc Tardif (cr3)]

Please provide an example of a system unit or two with camera devices appearing under the video category instead of the expected capture category.

[Nicola Heald (notnownikki)]

http://107.20.153.224/+api/1.0/devices/input%3A0091-VIDEO is a webcam with a category of VIDEO.

[Gary Poster (gary)]

That URL gives me a Not Found. I'm triaging blindly, so forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm going to keep this incomplete.

[Marc Tardif (cr3)]

For the record, the following raw submission in Launchpad happened to cause the udevadm parser to report a CAPTURE input device as a VIDEO device:

  https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/+hwdb/+submission/9448ae01985a062cb9f7d6705930e25a

The link on 107.20.153.224 is not likely to be available for posterity.