Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] v4l: Add support for STD ioctls on subdev nodes

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On 07/11/2018 12:39 PM, Marco Felsch wrote:
> Hi Javier,
> 
> On 18-07-08 15:11, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> [adding Marco Felsch since he has been working on this driver]
>>
>> On 07/05/2018 03:12 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>> On 05/07/18 14:44, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>>> Javier,
>>>>
>>>> How standard settings work with the current OMAP3 drivers with tvp5150?
>>>
>>> It looks like tvp5150 uses autodetect of the standard, which in general is
>>
>> That's correct, the driver uses standard autodetect.
>>
>>> not a good thing to do since different standards have different buffer
>>> sizes. But this chip can scale, so it might scale PAL to NTSC or vice versa
>>> if the standard switches mid-stream. Or it only detects the standard when
>>> it starts streaming, I'm not sure.
>>>
>>
>> Not sure about this either, IIUC switching the standard mid-stream won't work.
> 
> As far as I know, the detection happens after a sync lost event.
>

Ah, good to know.
 
>>> In any case, this is not normal behavior, for almost all analog video
>>> receivers you need to be able to set the std explicitly.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed. I see that Marco's recent series [0] add supports for the .querystd [1]
>> and .g_std [2] callbacks to the tvp5150 driver, so that way user-space can get
>> back the detected standard.
>>
>> [0]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg136869.html
>> [1]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg136872.html
>> [2]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg136875.html
> 
> I tought the std will be set by the v4l2_subdev_video_ops.s_std()
> operation. If the user change the std manually, the autodection is
> disabled.
>

Yes, what I tried to say is that user-space won't have a way to know which std
to set without a .querystd, or know what std was autodetected withou a .g_std.

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Software Engineer - Desktop Hardware Enablement
Red Hat



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