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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-07-27 12:32:31 +0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-07-29 02:08:19 +0300 |
| commit | 43f71d93a0cb342f0c918fba3f6abb7661e40ad2 (patch) | |
| tree | a1dc7288bc480e7027ca1827ca4876472fa12e40 /Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml | |
| parent | ff9a082fda424257976f08fce942609f358015e0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-43f71d93a0cb342f0c918fba3f6abb7661e40ad2.tar.xz | |
doc-rst: Remove the media docbook
Now that all media documentation was converted to Sphinx, we
should get rid of the old DocBook one, as we don't want people
to submit patches against the old stuff.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml | 27 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml deleted file mode 100644 index ff44c16fc080..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ - <title>Codec Interface</title> - - <para>A V4L2 codec can compress, decompress, transform, or otherwise -convert video data from one format into another format, in memory. Typically -such devices are memory-to-memory devices (i.e. devices with the -<constant>V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_M2M</constant> or <constant>V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_M2M_MPLANE</constant> -capability set). -</para> - - <para>A memory-to-memory video node acts just like a normal video node, but it -supports both output (sending frames from memory to the codec hardware) and -capture (receiving the processed frames from the codec hardware into memory) -stream I/O. An application will have to setup the stream -I/O for both sides and finally call &VIDIOC-STREAMON; for both capture and output -to start the codec.</para> - - <para>Video compression codecs use the MPEG controls to setup their codec parameters -(note that the MPEG controls actually support many more codecs than just MPEG). -See <xref linkend="mpeg-controls"></xref>.</para> - - <para>Memory-to-memory devices can often be used as a shared resource: you can -open the video node multiple times, each application setting up their own codec properties -that are local to the file handle, and each can use it independently from the others. -The driver will arbitrate access to the codec and reprogram it whenever another file -handler gets access. This is different from the usual video node behavior where the video properties -are global to the device (i.e. changing something through one file handle is visible -through another file handle).</para> |