Add an enum_fmt format flag to specifically tag coded formats where
full bitstream parsing is supported by the device.
Some stateful decoders are capable of fully parsing a bitstream,
but others require that userspace pre-parses the bitstream into
frames or fields (see the corresponding pixelformat descriptions
for details).
If this flag is set, then this pre-parsing step is not required
(but still possible, of course).
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-ci...@xs4all.nl>
---
Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst | 8 ++++++++
Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h | 5 +++--
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
index 822d6730e7d2..4e24e671f32e 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
@@ -127,6 +127,14 @@ one until ``EINVAL`` is returned.
- This format is not native to the device but emulated through
software (usually libv4l2), where possible try to use a native
format instead for better performance.
+ * - ``V4L2_FMT_FLAG_HAS_BITSTREAM_PARSER``
+ - 0x0004
+ - The hardware decoder for this compressed bitstream format (aka coded
+ format) is capable of parsing the bitstream. Applications do not
+ need to parse the bitstream themselves to find the boundaries between
+ frames/fields. This flag can only be used in combination with the
+ ``V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED`` flag, since this applies to compressed
+ formats only.
Return Value
diff --git a/Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
b/Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
index 55cbe324b9fc..74fb9f00c12d 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
+++ b/Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ replace define V4L2_PIX_FMT_FLAG_PREMUL_ALPHA
reserved-formats
# V4L2 format flags
replace define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED fmtdesc-flags
replace define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_EMULATED fmtdesc-flags
+replace define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_HAS_BITSTREAM_PARSER fmtdesc-flags
# V4L2 tymecode types
replace define V4L2_TC_TYPE_24FPS timecode-type
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
index 2427bc4d8eba..8c5a28666b16 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
@@ -774,8 +774,9 @@ struct v4l2_fmtdesc {
__u32 reserved[4];
};
-#define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED 0x0001
-#define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_EMULATED 0x0002
+#define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED 0x0001
+#define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_EMULATED 0x0002
+#define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_HAS_BITSTREAM_PARSER 0x0004
/* Frame Size and frame rate enumeration */
/*
--
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