From 46609297e373c74a87acbb7e9f052a3ed8a8212c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hans Verkuil Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 08:57:07 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] [media] DocBook media: clarify v4l2_pix_format and v4l2_pix_format_mplane fields Be more specific with regards to how some of these fields are interpreted. In particular the height value and which fields can be set by the application. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml | 23 ++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml index f535d9ba5111..ea514d6075c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml @@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ capturing and output, for overlay frame buffer formats see also __u32 height - Image height in pixels. + Image height in pixels. If field is + one of V4L2_FIELD_TOP, V4L2_FIELD_BOTTOM + or V4L2_FIELD_ALTERNATE then height refers to the + number of lines in the field, otherwise it refers to the number of + lines in the frame (which is twice the field height for interlaced + formats). Applications set these fields to @@ -54,7 +59,7 @@ linkend="reserved-formats" /> can request to capture or output only the top or bottom field, or both fields interlaced or sequentially stored in one buffer or alternating in separate buffers. Drivers return the actual field order selected. -For details see . +For more details on fields see . __u32 @@ -81,7 +86,10 @@ plane and is divided by the same factor as the example the Cb and Cr planes of a YUV 4:2:0 image have half as many padding bytes following each line as the Y plane. To avoid ambiguities drivers must return a bytesperline value -rounded up to a multiple of the scale factor. +rounded up to a multiple of the scale factor. +For compressed formats the bytesperline +value makes no sense. Applications and drivers must set this to 0 in +that case. __u32 @@ -97,7 +105,8 @@ hold an image. &v4l2-colorspace; colorspace This information supplements the -pixelformat and must be set by the driver, +pixelformat and must be set by the driver for +capture streams and by the application for output streams, see . @@ -135,7 +144,7 @@ set this field to zero. __u16 bytesperline Distance in bytes between the leftmost pixels in two adjacent - lines. + lines. See &v4l2-pix-format;. __u16 @@ -154,12 +163,12 @@ set this field to zero. __u32 width - Image width in pixels. + Image width in pixels. See &v4l2-pix-format;. __u32 height - Image height in pixels. + Image height in pixels. See &v4l2-pix-format;. __u32 -- 2.11.0