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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2009-09-13 22:16:04 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2009-09-18 23:47:55 -0300 |
| commit | 8e080c2e6cadada82a6b520e0c23a1cb974822d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 991450ff1abba98e5313906478c33816a202ccab /Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-codec.xml | |
| parent | f4e96deb4513d044653027d4921fd7592195503a (diff) | |
V4L/DVB (12761): DocBook: add media API specs
The V4L and DVB API's are there for a long time. however, up to now,
no efforts were done to merge them to kernel DocBook.
This patch adds the current versions of the specs as an unique compendium.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-codec.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-codec.xml | 26 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-codec.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-codec.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6e156dc45b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-codec.xml @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ + <title>Codec Interface</title> + + <note> + <title>Suspended</title> + + <para>This interface has been be suspended from the V4L2 API +implemented in Linux 2.6 until we have more experience with codec +device interfaces.</para> + </note> + + <para>A V4L2 codec can compress, decompress, transform, or otherwise +convert video data from one format into another format, in memory. +Applications send data to be converted to the driver through a +&func-write; call, and receive the converted data through a +&func-read; call. For efficiency a driver may also support streaming +I/O.</para> + + <para>[to do]</para> + + <!-- +Local Variables: +mode: sgml +sgml-parent-document: "v4l2.sgml" +indent-tabs-mode: nil +End: + --> |