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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>2019-08-15 17:44:45 +0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>2019-08-19 20:41:45 +0300
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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 <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Reviewed-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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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.
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