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diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/cx2341x/fw-encoder-api.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/cx2341x/fw-encoder-api.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5a27af2ee --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/cx2341x/fw-encoder-api.txt @@ -0,0 +1,709 @@ +Encoder firmware API description +================================ + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_PING_FW +Enum 128/0x80 +Description + Does nothing. Can be used to check if the firmware is responding. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_START_CAPTURE +Enum 129/0x81 +Description + Commences the capture of video, audio and/or VBI data. All encoding + parameters must be initialized prior to this API call. Captures frames + continuously or until a predefined number of frames have been captured. +Param[0] + Capture stream type: + 0=MPEG + 1=Raw + 2=Raw passthrough + 3=VBI + +Param[1] + Bitmask: + Bit 0 when set, captures YUV + Bit 1 when set, captures PCM audio + Bit 2 when set, captures VBI (same as param[0]=3) + Bit 3 when set, the capture destination is the decoder + (same as param[0]=2) + Bit 4 when set, the capture destination is the host + Note: this parameter is only meaningful for RAW capture type. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_STOP_CAPTURE +Enum 130/0x82 +Description + Ends a capture in progress +Param[0] + 0=stop at end of GOP (generates IRQ) + 1=stop immediate (no IRQ) +Param[1] + Stream type to stop, see param[0] of API 0x81 +Param[2] + Subtype, see param[1] of API 0x81 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_AUDIO_ID +Enum 137/0x89 +Description + Assigns the transport stream ID of the encoded audio stream +Param[0] + Audio Stream ID + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_VIDEO_ID +Enum 139/0x8B +Description + Set video transport stream ID +Param[0] + Video stream ID + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_PCR_ID +Enum 141/0x8D +Description + Assigns the transport stream ID for PCR packets +Param[0] + PCR Stream ID + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_FRAME_RATE +Enum 143/0x8F +Description + Set video frames per second. Change occurs at start of new GOP. +Param[0] + 0=30fps + 1=25fps + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_FRAME_SIZE +Enum 145/0x91 +Description + Select video stream encoding resolution. +Param[0] + Height in lines. Default 480 +Param[1] + Width in pixels. Default 720 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_BIT_RATE +Enum 149/0x95 +Description + Assign average video stream bitrate. Note on the last three params: + Param[3] and [4] seem to be always 0, param [5] doesn't seem to be used. +Param[0] + 0=variable bitrate, 1=constant bitrate +Param[1] + bitrate in bits per second +Param[2] + peak bitrate in bits per second, divided by 400 +Param[3] + Mux bitrate in bits per second, divided by 400. May be 0 (default). +Param[4] + Rate Control VBR Padding +Param[5] + VBV Buffer used by encoder + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_GOP_PROPERTIES +Enum 151/0x97 +Description + Setup the GOP structure +Param[0] + GOP size (maximum is 34) +Param[1] + Number of B frames between the I and P frame, plus 1. + For example: IBBPBBPBBPBB --> GOP size: 12, number of B frames: 2+1 = 3 + Note that GOP size must be a multiple of (B-frames + 1). + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_ASPECT_RATIO +Enum 153/0x99 +Description + Sets the encoding aspect ratio. Changes in the aspect ratio take effect + at the start of the next GOP. +Param[0] + '0000' forbidden + '0001' 1:1 square + '0010' 4:3 + '0011' 16:9 + '0100' 2.21:1 + '0101' reserved + .... + '1111' reserved + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_DNR_FILTER_MODE +Enum 155/0x9B +Description + Assign Dynamic Noise Reduction operating mode +Param[0] + Bit0: Spatial filter, set=auto, clear=manual + Bit1: Temporal filter, set=auto, clear=manual +Param[1] + Median filter: + 0=Disabled + 1=Horizontal + 2=Vertical + 3=Horiz/Vert + 4=Diagonal + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_DNR_FILTER_PROPS +Enum 157/0x9D +Description + These Dynamic Noise Reduction filter values are only meaningful when + the respective filter is set to "manual" (See API 0x9B) +Param[0] + Spatial filter: default 0, range 0:15 +Param[1] + Temporal filter: default 0, range 0:31 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_CORING_LEVELS +Enum 159/0x9F +Description + Assign Dynamic Noise Reduction median filter properties. +Param[0] + Threshold above which the luminance median filter is enabled. + Default: 0, range 0:255 +Param[1] + Threshold below which the luminance median filter is enabled. + Default: 255, range 0:255 +Param[2] + Threshold above which the chrominance median filter is enabled. + Default: 0, range 0:255 +Param[3] + Threshold below which the chrominance median filter is enabled. + Default: 255, range 0:255 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_SPATIAL_FILTER_TYPE +Enum 161/0xA1 +Description + Assign spatial prefilter parameters +Param[0] + Luminance filter + 0=Off + 1=1D Horizontal + 2=1D Vertical + 3=2D H/V Separable (default) + 4=2D Symmetric non-separable +Param[1] + Chrominance filter + 0=Off + 1=1D Horizontal (default) + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_VBI_LINE +Enum 183/0xB7 +Description + Selects VBI line number. +Param[0] + Bits 0:4 line number + Bit 31 0=top_field, 1=bottom_field + Bits 0:31 all set specifies "all lines" +Param[1] + VBI line information features: 0=disabled, 1=enabled +Param[2] + Slicing: 0=None, 1=Closed Caption + Almost certainly not implemented. Set to 0. +Param[3] + Luminance samples in this line. + Almost certainly not implemented. Set to 0. +Param[4] + Chrominance samples in this line + Almost certainly not implemented. Set to 0. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_STREAM_TYPE +Enum 185/0xB9 +Description + Assign stream type + Note: Transport stream is not working in recent firmwares. + And in older firmwares the timestamps in the TS seem to be + unreliable. +Param[0] + 0=Program stream + 1=Transport stream + 2=MPEG1 stream + 3=PES A/V stream + 5=PES Video stream + 7=PES Audio stream + 10=DVD stream + 11=VCD stream + 12=SVCD stream + 13=DVD_S1 stream + 14=DVD_S2 stream + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_OUTPUT_PORT +Enum 187/0xBB +Description + Assign stream output port. Normally 0 when the data is copied through + the PCI bus (DMA), and 1 when the data is streamed to another chip + (pvrusb and cx88-blackbird). +Param[0] + 0=Memory (default) + 1=Streaming + 2=Serial +Param[1] + Unknown, but leaving this to 0 seems to work best. Indications are that + this might have to do with USB support, although passing anything but 0 + only breaks things. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_AUDIO_PROPERTIES +Enum 189/0xBD +Description + Set audio stream properties, may be called while encoding is in progress. + Note: all bitfields are consistent with ISO11172 documentation except + bits 2:3 which ISO docs define as: + '11' Layer I + '10' Layer II + '01' Layer III + '00' Undefined + This discrepancy may indicate a possible error in the documentation. + Testing indicated that only Layer II is actually working, and that + the minimum bitrate should be 192 kbps. +Param[0] + Bitmask: + 0:1 '00' 44.1Khz + '01' 48Khz + '10' 32Khz + '11' reserved + + 2:3 '01'=Layer I + '10'=Layer II + + 4:7 Bitrate: + Index | Layer I | Layer II + ------+-------------+------------ + '0000' | free format | free format + '0001' | 32 kbit/s | 32 kbit/s + '0010' | 64 kbit/s | 48 kbit/s + '0011' | 96 kbit/s | 56 kbit/s + '0100' | 128 kbit/s | 64 kbit/s + '0101' | 160 kbit/s | 80 kbit/s + '0110' | 192 kbit/s | 96 kbit/s + '0111' | 224 kbit/s | 112 kbit/s + '1000' | 256 kbit/s | 128 kbit/s + '1001' | 288 kbit/s | 160 kbit/s + '1010' | 320 kbit/s | 192 kbit/s + '1011' | 352 kbit/s | 224 kbit/s + '1100' | 384 kbit/s | 256 kbit/s + '1101' | 416 kbit/s | 320 kbit/s + '1110' | 448 kbit/s | 384 kbit/s + Note: For Layer II, not all combinations of total bitrate + and mode are allowed. See ISO11172-3 3-Annex B, Table 3-B.2 + + 8:9 '00'=Stereo + '01'=JointStereo + '10'=Dual + '11'=Mono + Note: the cx23415 cannot decode Joint Stereo properly. + + 10:11 Mode Extension used in joint_stereo mode. + In Layer I and II they indicate which subbands are in + intensity_stereo. All other subbands are coded in stereo. + '00' subbands 4-31 in intensity_stereo, bound==4 + '01' subbands 8-31 in intensity_stereo, bound==8 + '10' subbands 12-31 in intensity_stereo, bound==12 + '11' subbands 16-31 in intensity_stereo, bound==16 + + 12:13 Emphasis: + '00' None + '01' 50/15uS + '10' reserved + '11' CCITT J.17 + + 14 CRC: + '0' off + '1' on + + 15 Copyright: + '0' off + '1' on + + 16 Generation: + '0' copy + '1' original + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_HALT_FW +Enum 195/0xC3 +Description + The firmware is halted and no further API calls are serviced until the + firmware is uploaded again. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_GET_VERSION +Enum 196/0xC4 +Description + Returns the version of the encoder firmware. +Result[0] + Version bitmask: + Bits 0:15 build + Bits 16:23 minor + Bits 24:31 major + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_GOP_CLOSURE +Enum 197/0xC5 +Description + Assigns the GOP open/close property. +Param[0] + 0=Open + 1=Closed + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_GET_SEQ_END +Enum 198/0xC6 +Description + Obtains the sequence end code of the encoder's buffer. When a capture + is started a number of interrupts are still generated, the last of + which will have Result[0] set to 1 and Result[1] will contain the size + of the buffer. +Result[0] + State of the transfer (1 if last buffer) +Result[1] + If Result[0] is 1, this contains the size of the last buffer, undefined + otherwise. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_PGM_INDEX_INFO +Enum 199/0xC7 +Description + Sets the Program Index Information. + The information is stored as follows: + + struct info { + u32 length; // Length of this frame + u32 offset_low; // Offset in the file of the + u32 offset_high; // start of this frame + u32 mask1; // Bits 0-2 are the type mask: + // 1=I, 2=P, 4=B + // 0=End of Program Index, other fields + // are invalid. + u32 pts; // The PTS of the frame + u32 mask2; // Bit 0 is bit 32 of the pts. + }; + u32 table_ptr; + struct info index[400]; + + The table_ptr is the encoder memory address in the table were + *new* entries will be written. Note that this is a ringbuffer, + so the table_ptr will wraparound. +Param[0] + Picture Mask: + 0=No index capture + 1=I frames + 3=I,P frames + 7=I,P,B frames + (Seems to be ignored, it always indexes I, P and B frames) +Param[1] + Elements requested (up to 400) +Result[0] + Offset in the encoder memory of the start of the table. +Result[1] + Number of allocated elements up to a maximum of Param[1] + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_VBI_CONFIG +Enum 200/0xC8 +Description + Configure VBI settings +Param[0] + Bitmap: + 0 Mode '0' Sliced, '1' Raw + 1:3 Insertion: + '000' insert in extension & user data + '001' insert in private packets + '010' separate stream and user data + '111' separate stream and private data + 8:15 Stream ID (normally 0xBD) +Param[1] + Frames per interrupt (max 8). Only valid in raw mode. +Param[2] + Total raw VBI frames. Only valid in raw mode. +Param[3] + Start codes +Param[4] + Stop codes +Param[5] + Lines per frame +Param[6] + Byte per line +Result[0] + Observed frames per interrupt in raw mode only. Rage 1 to Param[1] +Result[1] + Observed number of frames in raw mode. Range 1 to Param[2] +Result[2] + Memory offset to start or raw VBI data + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_DMA_BLOCK_SIZE +Enum 201/0xC9 +Description + Set DMA transfer block size +Param[0] + DMA transfer block size in bytes or frames. When unit is bytes, + supported block sizes are 2^7, 2^8 and 2^9 bytes. +Param[1] + Unit: 0=bytes, 1=frames + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_GET_PREV_DMA_INFO_MB_10 +Enum 202/0xCA +Description + Returns information on the previous DMA transfer in conjunction with + bit 27 of the interrupt mask. Uses mailbox 10. +Result[0] + Type of stream +Result[1] + Address Offset +Result[2] + Maximum size of transfer + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_GET_PREV_DMA_INFO_MB_9 +Enum 203/0xCB +Description + Returns information on the previous DMA transfer in conjunction with + bit 27 or 18 of the interrupt mask. Uses mailbox 9. +Result[0] + Status bits: + 0 read completed + 1 write completed + 2 DMA read error + 3 DMA write error + 4 Scatter-Gather array error +Result[1] + DMA type +Result[2] + Presentation Time Stamp bits 0..31 +Result[3] + Presentation Time Stamp bit 32 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SCHED_DMA_TO_HOST +Enum 204/0xCC +Description + Setup DMA to host operation +Param[0] + Memory address of link list +Param[1] + Length of link list (wtf: what units ???) +Param[2] + DMA type (0=MPEG) + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_INITIALIZE_INPUT +Enum 205/0xCD +Description + Initializes the video input + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_FRAME_DROP_RATE +Enum 208/0xD0 +Description + For each frame captured, skip specified number of frames. +Param[0] + Number of frames to skip + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_PAUSE_ENCODER +Enum 210/0xD2 +Description + During a pause condition, all frames are dropped instead of being encoded. +Param[0] + 0=Pause encoding + 1=Continue encoding + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_REFRESH_INPUT +Enum 211/0xD3 +Description + Refreshes the video input + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_COPYRIGHT +Enum 212/0xD4 +Description + Sets stream copyright property +Param[0] + 0=Stream is not copyrighted + 1=Stream is copyrighted + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_EVENT_NOTIFICATION +Enum 213/0xD5 +Description + Setup firmware to notify the host about a particular event. Host must + unmask the interrupt bit. +Param[0] + Event (0=refresh encoder input) +Param[1] + Notification 0=disabled 1=enabled +Param[2] + Interrupt bit +Param[3] + Mailbox slot, -1 if no mailbox required. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_NUM_VSYNC_LINES +Enum 214/0xD6 +Description + Depending on the analog video decoder used, this assigns the number + of lines for field 1 and 2. +Param[0] + Field 1 number of lines: + 0x00EF for SAA7114 + 0x00F0 for SAA7115 + 0x0105 for Micronas +Param[1] + Field 2 number of lines: + 0x00EF for SAA7114 + 0x00F0 for SAA7115 + 0x0106 for Micronas + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_PLACEHOLDER +Enum 215/0xD7 +Description + Provides a mechanism of inserting custom user data in the MPEG stream. +Param[0] + 0=extension & user data + 1=private packet with stream ID 0xBD +Param[1] + Rate at which to insert data, in units of frames (for private packet) + or GOPs (for ext. & user data) +Param[2] + Number of data DWORDs (below) to insert +Param[3] + Custom data 0 +Param[4] + Custom data 1 +Param[5] + Custom data 2 +Param[6] + Custom data 3 +Param[7] + Custom data 4 +Param[8] + Custom data 5 +Param[9] + Custom data 6 +Param[10] + Custom data 7 +Param[11] + Custom data 8 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_MUTE_VIDEO +Enum 217/0xD9 +Description + Video muting +Param[0] + Bit usage: + 0 '0'=video not muted + '1'=video muted, creates frames with the YUV color defined below + 1:7 Unused + 8:15 V chrominance information + 16:23 U chrominance information + 24:31 Y luminance information + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_MUTE_AUDIO +Enum 218/0xDA +Description + Audio muting +Param[0] + 0=audio not muted + 1=audio muted (produces silent mpeg audio stream) + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_VERT_CROP_LINE +Enum 219/0xDB +Description + Something to do with 'Vertical Crop Line' +Param[0] + If saa7114 and raw VBI capture and 60 Hz, then set to 10001. + Else 0. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Name CX2341X_ENC_MISC +Enum 220/0xDC +Description + Miscellaneous actions. Not known for 100% what it does. It's really a + sort of ioctl call. The first parameter is a command number, the second + the value. +Param[0] + Command number: + 1=set initial SCR value when starting encoding (works). + 2=set quality mode (apparently some test setting). + 3=setup advanced VIM protection handling. + Always 1 for the cx23416 and 0 for cx23415. + 4=generate DVD compatible PTS timestamps + 5=USB flush mode + 6=something to do with the quantization matrix + 7=set navigation pack insertion for DVD: adds 0xbf (private stream 2) + packets to the MPEG. The size of these packets is 2048 bytes (including + the header of 6 bytes: 0x000001bf + length). The payload is zeroed and + it is up to the application to fill them in. These packets are apparently + inserted every four frames. + 8=enable scene change detection (seems to be a failure) + 9=set history parameters of the video input module + 10=set input field order of VIM + 11=set quantization matrix + 12=reset audio interface after channel change or input switch (has no argument). + Needed for the cx2584x, not needed for the mspx4xx, but it doesn't seem to + do any harm calling it regardless. + 13=set audio volume delay + 14=set audio delay + +Param[1] + Command value. |