- 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
+ 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.
* - ``V4L2_FMT_FLAG_DYN_RESOLUTION``
- 0x0008
- Dynamic resolution switching is supported by the device for this
compressed bytestream format (aka coded format). It will notify the user
via the event ``V4L2_EVENT_SOURCE_CHANGE`` when changes in the video
- parameters are detected. This flag can only be used in combination
- with the ``V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED`` flag, since this applies to
- compressed formats only. It is also only applies to stateful codecs.
+ parameters are detected.
+
+ 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 codecs only.
+ * - ``V4L2_FMT_FLAG_ENC_CAP_FRAME_INTERVAL``
+ - 0x0010
+ - The hardware encoder supports setting the ``CAPTURE`` coded frame
+ interval separately from the ``OUTPUT`` raw frame interval.
+ Setting the ``OUTPUT`` raw frame interval with :ref:`VIDIOC_S_PARM <VIDIOC_G_PARM>`
+ also sets the ``CAPTURE`` coded frame interval to the same value.
+ If this flag is set, then the ``CAPTURE`` coded frame interval can be
+ set to a different value afterwards. This is typically used for
+ offline encoding where the ``OUTPUT`` raw frame interval is used as
+ a hint for reserving hardware encoder resources and the ``CAPTURE`` coded
+ frame interval is the actual frame rate embedded in the encoded video
+ stream.
+
+ 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 encoders only.
Return Value