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diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran b/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran index 00e3f926781..699b60e070d 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran @@ -322,76 +322,11 @@ your IRQs and make sure the card has its own interrupts. 4. Programming interface -This driver conforms to video4linux and video4linux2, both can be used to -use the driver. Since video4linux didn't provide adequate calls to fully -use the cards' features, we've introduced several programming extensions, -which are currently officially accepted in the 2.4.x branch of the kernel. -These extensions are known as the v4l/mjpeg extensions. See zoran.h for -details (structs/ioctls). - -Information - video4linux: -http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/API.html -Documentation/video4linux/API.html -/usr/include/linux/videodev.h - -Information - video4linux/mjpeg extensions: -./zoran.h -(also see below) - -Information - video4linux2: -http://linuxtv.org -http://v4l2spec.bytesex.org/ -/usr/include/linux/videodev2.h - -More information on the video4linux/mjpeg extensions, by Serguei -Miridonovi and Rainer Johanni: --- -The ioctls for that interface are as follows: - -BUZIOC_G_PARAMS -BUZIOC_S_PARAMS - -Get and set the parameters of the buz. The user should always do a -BUZIOC_G_PARAMS (with a struct buz_params) to obtain the default -settings, change what he likes and then make a BUZIOC_S_PARAMS call. - -BUZIOC_REQBUFS - -Before being able to capture/playback, the user has to request -the buffers he is wanting to use. Fill the structure -zoran_requestbuffers with the size (recommended: 256*1024) and -the number (recommended 32 up to 256). There are no such restrictions -as for the Video for Linux buffers, you should LEAVE SUFFICIENT -MEMORY for your system however, else strange things will happen .... -On return, the zoran_requestbuffers structure contains number and -size of the actually allocated buffers. -You should use these numbers for doing a mmap of the buffers -into the user space. -The BUZIOC_REQBUFS ioctl also makes it happen, that the next mmap -maps the MJPEG buffer instead of the V4L buffers. - -BUZIOC_QBUF_CAPT -BUZIOC_QBUF_PLAY - -Queue a buffer for capture or playback. The first call also starts -streaming capture. When streaming capture is going on, you may -only queue further buffers or issue syncs until streaming -capture is switched off again with a argument of -1 to -a BUZIOC_QBUF_CAPT/BUZIOC_QBUF_PLAY ioctl. - -BUZIOC_SYNC - -Issue this ioctl when all buffers are queued. This ioctl will -block until the first buffer becomes free for saving its -data to disk (after BUZIOC_QBUF_CAPT) or for reuse (after BUZIOC_QBUF_PLAY). - -BUZIOC_G_STATUS - -Get the status of the input lines (video source connected/norm). +This driver conforms to video4linux2. Support for V4L1 and for the custom +zoran ioctls has been removed in kernel 2.6.38. For programming example, please, look at lavrec.c and lavplay.c code in -lavtools-1.2p2 package (URL: http://www.cicese.mx/) -and the 'examples' directory in the original Buz driver distribution. +the MJPEG-tools (http://mjpeg.sf.net/). Additional notes for software developers: @@ -402,9 +337,6 @@ Additional notes for software developers: standard is "more constant" for current country than geometry settings of a variety of TV capture cards which may work in ITU or square pixel format. --- -Please note that lavplay/lavrec are also included in the MJPEG-tools -(http://mjpeg.sf.net/). =========================== |