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authorHans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>2018-07-04 17:13:47 +0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>2018-07-25 15:07:58 +0300
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media: media.h: add encoder/decoder functions for codecs
Add MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_EN/DECODER to be used for the encoder and decoder entities of codec hardware. [mchehab+samsung@kernel.org: split description on two senteces by adding dots] Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst
index e90d4d0a7f8b..7b17acc049cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ Types and flags used to represent the media graph elements
.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-PROC-VIDEO-LUT:
.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-PROC-VIDEO-SCALER:
.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-PROC-VIDEO-STATISTICS:
+.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-PROC-VIDEO-ENCODER:
+.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-PROC-VIDEO-DECODER:
.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-VID-MUX:
.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-VID-IF-BRIDGE:
.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-DTV-DECODER:
@@ -188,6 +190,15 @@ Types and flags used to represent the media graph elements
received on its sink pad and outputs the statistics data on
its source pad.
+ * - ``MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_ENCODER``
+ - Video (MPEG, HEVC, VPx, etc.) encoder. An entity capable of
+ compressing video frames. Must have one sink pad and one source pad.
+
+ * - ``MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_DECODER``
+ - Video (MPEG, HEVC, VPx, etc.) decoder. An entity capable of
+ decompressing a compressed video stream into uncompressed video
+ frames. Must have one sink pad and one source pad.
+
* - ``MEDIA_ENT_F_VID_MUX``
- Video multiplexer. An entity capable of multiplexing must have at
least two sink pads and one source pad, and must pass the video