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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-meta-uvc.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-meta-uvc.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..debc50285a25 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-meta-uvc.rst @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, +.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software +.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts +.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at +.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst. +.. +.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections + +.. _v4l2-meta-fmt-uvc: + +******************************* +V4L2_META_FMT_UVC ('UVCH') +******************************* + +UVC Payload Header Data + + +Description +=========== + +This format describes standard UVC metadata, extracted from UVC packet headers +and provided by the UVC driver through metadata video nodes. That data includes +exact copies of the standard part of UVC Payload Header contents and auxiliary +timing information, required for precise interpretation of timestamps, contained +in those headers. See section "2.4.3.3 Video and Still Image Payload Headers" of +the "UVC 1.5 Class specification" for details. + +Each UVC payload header can be between 2 and 12 bytes large. Buffers can +contain multiple headers, if multiple such headers have been transmitted by the +camera for the respective frame. However, the driver may drop headers when the +buffer is full, when they contain no useful information (e.g. those without the +SCR field or with that field identical to the previous header), or generally to +perform rate limiting when the device sends a large number of headers. + +Each individual block contains the following fields: + +.. flat-table:: UVC Metadata Block + :widths: 1 4 + :header-rows: 1 + :stub-columns: 0 + + * - Field + - Description + * - __u64 ts; + - system timestamp in host byte order, measured by the driver upon + reception of the payload + * - __u16 sof; + - USB Frame Number in host byte order, also obtained by the driver as + close as possible to the above timestamp to enable correlation between + them + * - :cspan:`1` *The rest is an exact copy of the UVC payload header:* + * - __u8 length; + - length of the rest of the block, including this field + * - __u8 flags; + - Flags, indicating presence of other standard UVC fields + * - __u8 buf[]; + - The rest of the header, possibly including UVC PTS and SCR fields |