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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_STATUS:
+
+================
+VIDEO_GET_STATUS
+================
+
+Name
+----
+
+VIDEO_GET_STATUS
+
+.. attention:: This ioctl is deprecated.
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+.. c:function:: int ioctl(fd, VIDEO_GET_STATUS, struct video_status *status)
+    :name: VIDEO_GET_STATUS
+
+
+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_STATUS for this command.
+
+    -  .. row 3
+
+       -  struct video_status \*status
+
+       -  Returns the current status of the Video Device.
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This ioctl call asks the Video Device to return the current status of
+the device.
+
+.. c:type:: video_status
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	struct video_status {
+		int                   video_blank;   /* blank video on freeze? */
+		video_play_state_t    play_state;    /* current state of playback */
+		video_stream_source_t stream_source; /* current source (demux/memory) */
+		video_format_t        video_format;  /* current aspect ratio of stream*/
+		video_displayformat_t display_format;/* selected cropping mode */
+	};
+
+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.