On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 19:04 +0900, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> Due to complexity of the video decoding process, the V4L2 drivers of
> stateful decoder hardware require specific sequences of V4L2 API calls
> to be followed. These include capability enumeration, initialization,
> decoding, seek, pause, dynamic resolution change, drain and end of
> stream.
>
> Specifics of the above have been discussed during Media Workshops at
> LinuxCon Europe 2012 in Barcelona and then later Embedded Linux
> Conference Europe 2014 in Düsseldorf. The de facto Codec API that
> originated at those events was later implemented by the drivers we already
> have merged in mainline, such as s5p-mfc or coda.
>
> The only thing missing was the real specification included as a part of
> Linux Media documentation. Fix it now and document the decoder part of
> the Codec API.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/dev-decoder.rst | 1076 +++++++++++++++++
> Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/dev-mem2mem.rst | 5 +
> Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst | 5 +
> Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/v4l2.rst | 10 +-
> .../media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-decoder-cmd.rst | 40 +-
> Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-g-fmt.rst | 14 +
> 6 files changed, 1135 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/dev-decoder.rst
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/dev-decoder.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/dev-decoder.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..b7db2352ad41
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/dev-decoder.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,1076 @@
> +.. -*- coding: utf-8; mode: rst -*-
> +
> +.. _decoder:
> +
> +*************************************************
> +Memory-to-memory Stateful Video Decoder Interface
> +*************************************************
> +
[...]
> +
> +Drain
> +=====
> +
[...]
> +
> +3. Once all the ``OUTPUT`` buffers queued before the ``V4L2_DEC_CMD_STOP`` call
> + are dequeued and the last ``CAPTURE`` buffer is dequeued, the decoder is
> + stopped and it will accept, but not process, any newly queued ``OUTPUT``
> + buffers until the client issues any of the following operations:
> +
[...]
> +
> +.. note::
> +
> + Once the drain sequence is initiated, the client needs to drive it to
> + completion, as described by the steps above, unless it aborts the process by
> + issuing :c:func:`VIDIOC_STREAMOFF` on any of the ``OUTPUT`` or ``CAPTURE``
> + queues. The client is not allowed to issue ``V4L2_DEC_CMD_START`` or
> + ``V4L2_DEC_CMD_STOP`` again while the drain sequence is in progress and they
> + will fail with -EBUSY error code if attempted.
Should the V4L2_DEC_CMD_STOP documentation in
Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-decoder-cmd.rst:
* - ``V4L2_DEC_CMD_STOP``
- 1
- Stop the decoder. When the decoder is already stopped, this
command does nothing.
be updated to mention that for mem2mem decoders this not only does
nothing, but returns an -EBUSY error return value?
Also, if V4L2_DEC_CMD_STOP_IMMEDIATELY is set, should the decoder drop
all pending buffers and signal EOS immediately? Should this be mentioned
here?
> + Although mandatory, the availability of decoder commands may be queried
> + using :c:func:`VIDIOC_TRY_DECODER_CMD`.
Do the TRY_DECODER_CMD also return -EBUSY during the draining phase?
regards
Philipp
