From 2b770bee787daec66ed86baf4fc83275f949c8ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hans Verkuil Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 11:44:45 -0300 Subject: media: videodev2.h: add V4L2_FMT_FLAG_CONTINUOUS_BYTESTREAM Add an enum_fmt format flag to specifically tag coded formats where full bytestream parsing is supported by the device. Some stateful decoders are capable of fully parsing a bytestream, but others require that userspace pre-parses the bytestream into frames or fields (see the corresponding pixelformat descriptions for details). If this flag is set, then this pre-parsing step is not required (but still possible, of course). Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Reviewed-by: Paul Kocialkowski Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/media/uapi') diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst index 822d6730e7d2..ebc05ce74bdf 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst @@ -127,6 +127,14 @@ one until ``EINVAL`` is returned. - This format is not native to the device but emulated through software (usually libv4l2), where possible try to use a native format instead for better performance. + * - ``V4L2_FMT_FLAG_CONTINUOUS_BYTESTREAM`` + - 0x0004 + - The hardware decoder for this compressed bytestream format (aka coded + format) is capable of parsing a continuous bytestream. Applications do + not need to parse the bytestream themselves to find the boundaries + between frames/fields. This flag can only be used in combination with + the ``V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED`` flag, since this applies to compressed + formats only. This flag is valid for stateful decoders only. Return Value -- cgit v1.2.3