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+.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
+.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
+.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts
+.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at
+.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst.
+..
+.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
+
+.. _VIDEO_GET_CAPABILITIES:
+
+======================
+VIDEO_GET_CAPABILITIES
+======================
+
+Name
+----
+
+VIDEO_GET_CAPABILITIES
+
+.. attention:: This ioctl is deprecated.
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+.. c:function:: int ioctl(fd, VIDEO_GET_CAPABILITIES, unsigned int *cap)
+    :name: VIDEO_GET_CAPABILITIES
+
+
+Arguments
+---------
+
+.. flat-table::
+    :header-rows:  0
+    :stub-columns: 0
+
+
+    -  .. row 1
+
+       -  int fd
+
+       -  File descriptor returned by a previous call to open().
+
+    -  .. row 2
+
+       -  int request
+
+       -  Equals VIDEO_GET_CAPABILITIES for this command.
+
+    -  .. row 3
+
+       -  unsigned int \*cap
+
+       -  Pointer to a location where to store the capability information.
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This ioctl call asks the video device about its decoding capabilities.
+On success it returns and integer which has bits set according to the
+defines in section ??.
+
+
+Return Value
+------------
+
+On success 0 is returned, on error -1 and the ``errno`` variable is set
+appropriately. The generic error codes are described at the
+:ref:`Generic Error Codes <gen-errors>` chapter.