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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2009-02-13 20:13:17 -0200 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2009-02-13 20:13:17 -0200 |
| commit | adff0f37dc0f0ab48850eaad267223c634e975a2 (patch) | |
| tree | c6aa3e259581abeb64eb7590b29a60354ec5a5ee /v4l2-spec/dev-codec.sgml | |
| parent | e2b4212172d81f17f5e4741766f032d06e83ce4f (diff) | |
| parent | f25ebd42bbb82866dfbbba5b7bfc651315fa6416 (diff) | |
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merge: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~tap/bttv
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/v4l2-spec/dev-codec.sgml b/v4l2-spec/dev-codec.sgml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6e156dc45 --- /dev/null +++ b/v4l2-spec/dev-codec.sgml @@ -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: + --> |