From 8d4f9d241cdbd71a882a852c6e9285de279c0f87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:00:12 +0100
Subject: v4l2spec: add version 0.24 of the spec

From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>

Priority: normal

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
---
 v4l2-spec/dev-codec.sgml | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 v4l2-spec/dev-codec.sgml

(limited to 'v4l2-spec/dev-codec.sgml')

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:
+  -->
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