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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2016-07-27 06:32:31 -0300
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Now that all media documentation was converted to Sphinx, we should get rid of the old DocBook one, as we don't want people to submit patches against the old stuff. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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- <title>Video Capture Interface</title>
-
- <para>Video capture devices sample an analog video signal and store
-the digitized images in memory. Today nearly all devices can capture
-at full 25 or 30 frames/second. With this interface applications can
-control the capture process and move images from the driver into user
-space.</para>
-
- <para>Conventionally V4L2 video capture devices are accessed through
-character device special files named <filename>/dev/video</filename>
-and <filename>/dev/video0</filename> to
-<filename>/dev/video63</filename> with major number 81 and minor
-numbers 0 to 63. <filename>/dev/video</filename> is typically a
-symbolic link to the preferred video device. Note the same device
-files are used for video output devices.</para>
-
- <section>
- <title>Querying Capabilities</title>
-
- <para>Devices supporting the video capture interface set the
-<constant>V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_CAPTURE</constant> or
-<constant>V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_CAPTURE_MPLANE</constant> flag in the
-<structfield>capabilities</structfield> field of &v4l2-capability;
-returned by the &VIDIOC-QUERYCAP; ioctl. As secondary device functions
-they may also support the <link linkend="overlay">video overlay</link>
-(<constant>V4L2_CAP_VIDEO_OVERLAY</constant>) and the <link
-linkend="raw-vbi">raw VBI capture</link>
-(<constant>V4L2_CAP_VBI_CAPTURE</constant>) interface. At least one of
-the read/write or streaming I/O methods must be supported. Tuners and
-audio inputs are optional.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Supplemental Functions</title>
-
- <para>Video capture devices shall support <link
-linkend="audio">audio input</link>, <link
-linkend="tuner">tuner</link>, <link linkend="control">controls</link>,
-<link linkend="crop">cropping and scaling</link> and <link
-linkend="streaming-par">streaming parameter</link> ioctls as needed.
-The <link linkend="video">video input</link> and <link
-linkend="standard">video standard</link> ioctls must be supported by
-all video capture devices.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Image Format Negotiation</title>
-
- <para>The result of a capture operation is determined by
-cropping and image format parameters. The former select an area of the
-video picture to capture, the latter how images are stored in memory,
-&ie; in RGB or YUV format, the number of bits per pixel or width and
-height. Together they also define how images are scaled in the
-process.</para>
-
- <para>As usual these parameters are <emphasis>not</emphasis> reset
-at &func-open; time to permit Unix tool chains, programming a device
-and then reading from it as if it was a plain file. Well written V4L2
-applications ensure they really get what they want, including cropping
-and scaling.</para>
-
- <para>Cropping initialization at minimum requires to reset the
-parameters to defaults. An example is given in <xref
-linkend="crop" />.</para>
-
- <para>To query the current image format applications set the
-<structfield>type</structfield> field of a &v4l2-format; to
-<constant>V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE</constant> or
-<constant>V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE_MPLANE</constant> and call the
-&VIDIOC-G-FMT; ioctl with a pointer to this structure. Drivers fill
-the &v4l2-pix-format; <structfield>pix</structfield> or the
-&v4l2-pix-format-mplane; <structfield>pix_mp</structfield> member of the
-<structfield>fmt</structfield> union.</para>
-
- <para>To request different parameters applications set the
-<structfield>type</structfield> field of a &v4l2-format; as above and
-initialize all fields of the &v4l2-pix-format;
-<structfield>vbi</structfield> member of the
-<structfield>fmt</structfield> union, or better just modify the
-results of <constant>VIDIOC_G_FMT</constant>, and call the
-&VIDIOC-S-FMT; ioctl with a pointer to this structure. Drivers may
-adjust the parameters and finally return the actual parameters as
-<constant>VIDIOC_G_FMT</constant> does.</para>
-
- <para>Like <constant>VIDIOC_S_FMT</constant> the
-&VIDIOC-TRY-FMT; ioctl can be used to learn about hardware limitations
-without disabling I/O or possibly time consuming hardware
-preparations.</para>
-
- <para>The contents of &v4l2-pix-format; and &v4l2-pix-format-mplane;
-are discussed in <xref linkend="pixfmt" />. See also the specification of the
-<constant>VIDIOC_G_FMT</constant>, <constant>VIDIOC_S_FMT</constant>
-and <constant>VIDIOC_TRY_FMT</constant> ioctls for details. Video
-capture devices must implement both the
-<constant>VIDIOC_G_FMT</constant> and
-<constant>VIDIOC_S_FMT</constant> ioctl, even if
-<constant>VIDIOC_S_FMT</constant> ignores all requests and always
-returns default parameters as <constant>VIDIOC_G_FMT</constant> does.
-<constant>VIDIOC_TRY_FMT</constant> is optional.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Reading Images</title>
-
- <para>A video capture device may support the <link
-linkend="rw">read() function</link> and/or streaming (<link
-linkend="mmap">memory mapping</link> or <link
-linkend="userp">user pointer</link>) I/O. See <xref
-linkend="io" /> for details.</para>
- </section>