From 670027c507e99521d416994a18a498def9ef2ea3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Fabian=20Silva=20Delgado?= Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 19:31:08 -0300 Subject: Linux-libre 4.8.3-gnu --- Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml | 27 --------------------------- 1 file changed, 27 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml deleted file mode 100644 index ff44c16fc..000000000 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-codec.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ - Codec Interface - - A V4L2 codec can compress, decompress, transform, or otherwise -convert video data from one format into another format, in memory. Typically -such devices are memory-to-memory devices (i.e. devices with the -V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_M2M or V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_M2M_MPLANE -capability set). - - - A memory-to-memory video node acts just like a normal video node, but it -supports both output (sending frames from memory to the codec hardware) and -capture (receiving the processed frames from the codec hardware into memory) -stream I/O. An application will have to setup the stream -I/O for both sides and finally call &VIDIOC-STREAMON; for both capture and output -to start the codec. - - Video compression codecs use the MPEG controls to setup their codec parameters -(note that the MPEG controls actually support many more codecs than just MPEG). -See . - - Memory-to-memory devices can often be used as a shared resource: you can -open the video node multiple times, each application setting up their own codec properties -that are local to the file handle, and each can use it independently from the others. -The driver will arbitrate access to the codec and reprogram it whenever another file -handler gets access. This is different from the usual video node behavior where the video properties -are global to the device (i.e. changing something through one file handle is visible -through another file handle). -- cgit v1.2.3