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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-09-25 00:22:33 +0400 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-09-25 00:22:33 +0400 |
| commit | baea7b946f00a291b166ccae7fcfed6c01530cc6 (patch) | |
| tree | 4aa275fbdbec9c7b9b4629e8bee2bbecd3c6a6af /Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-codec.xml | |
| parent | ae19ffbadc1b2100285a5b5b3d0a4e0a11390904 (diff) | |
| parent | 94e0fb086fc5663c38bbc0fe86d698be8314f82f (diff) | |
| download | linux-baea7b946f00a291b166ccae7fcfed6c01530cc6.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'origin' into for-linus
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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-codec.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-codec.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6e156dc45b94 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-codec.xml @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ + <title>Codec Interface</title> + + <note> + <title>Suspended</title> + + <para>This interface has been be suspended from the V4L2 API +implemented in Linux 2.6 until we have more experience with codec +device interfaces.</para> + </note> + + <para>A V4L2 codec can compress, decompress, transform, or otherwise +convert video data from one format into another format, in memory. +Applications send data to be converted to the driver through a +&func-write; call, and receive the converted data through a +&func-read; call. For efficiency a driver may also support streaming +I/O.</para> + + <para>[to do]</para> + + <!-- +Local Variables: +mode: sgml +sgml-parent-document: "v4l2.sgml" +indent-tabs-mode: nil +End: + --> |