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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/video-play.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/video-play.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2b6b4e93bd93 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/video-play.rst @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +.. 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_PLAY: + +========== +VIDEO_PLAY +========== + +Name +---- + +VIDEO_PLAY + +.. attention:: This ioctl is deprecated. + +Synopsis +-------- + +.. c:function:: int ioctl(fd, VIDEO_PLAY) + :name: VIDEO_PLAY + + +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_PLAY for this command. + + +Description +----------- + +This ioctl is for Digital TV devices only. To control a V4L2 decoder use the +V4L2 :ref:`VIDIOC_DECODER_CMD` instead. + +This ioctl call asks the Video Device to start playing a video stream +from the selected source. + + +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. |