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| author | Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> | 2019-05-24 12:20:30 +0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-05-29 13:27:18 +0300 |
| commit | 67e84a98af6505d78be9e1a383fadd8de2f9fed0 (patch) | |
| tree | 5939a54534df11be7cac3995c17e0dc742551719 /Documentation/media/uapi/v4l | |
| parent | f183ec61cc2fcaab88d1ace56101224afb79d2b3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-67e84a98af6505d78be9e1a383fadd8de2f9fed0.tar.xz | |
media: pixfmt: Add H264_SLICE_RAW format documentation
The H264_SLICE_RAW format introduced before is meant for stateless
decoders that will need the H264 parsed slice data without the start code.
Let's document it.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/media/uapi/v4l')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst | 25 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst index 6c961cfb74da..4b701fc7653e 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst @@ -52,6 +52,31 @@ Compressed Formats - ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_H264_MVC`` - 'M264' - H264 MVC video elementary stream. + * .. _V4L2-PIX-FMT-H264-SLICE-RAW: + + - ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_H264_SLICE_RAW`` + - 'S264' + - H264 parsed slice data, without the start code and as + extracted from the H264 bitstream. This format is adapted for + stateless video decoders that implement an H264 pipeline + (using the :ref:`mem2mem` and :ref:`media-request-api`). + Metadata associated with the frame to decode are required to + be passed through the ``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_SPS``, + ``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PPS``, + ``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_SCALING_MATRIX``, + ``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_SLICE_PARAMS`` and + ``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_DECODE_PARAMS`` controls. See the + :ref:`associated Codec Control IDs <v4l2-mpeg-h264>`. Exactly + one output and one capture buffer must be provided for use + with this pixel format. The output buffer must contain the + appropriate number of macroblocks to decode a full + corresponding frame to the matching capture buffer. + + .. note:: + + This format is not yet part of the public kernel API and it + is expected to change. + * .. _V4L2-PIX-FMT-H263: - ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_H263`` |