As some hardware have a knob to enable or disable emulation prevention
bytes removal, driver writers ended up wondering what exactly the
START_CODE_NONE modes meant in this regards. This patch clarify what is
expected with a reference to the specification.
Reported-by: John Cox <jc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst | 4 +++-
Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst
index 01e3b1a3fb99..075cbf14991e 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst
@@ -665,7 +665,9 @@ Stateless Codec Control ID
* - ``V4L2_STATELESS_H264_START_CODE_NONE``
- 0
- Selecting this value specifies that H264 slices are passed
- to the driver without any start code.
+ to the driver without any start code. The bitstream data should be
+ according to :ref:`h264` 7.3.1 NAL unit syntax, hence contains
+ emulation prevention bytes when required.
* - ``V4L2_STATELESS_H264_START_CODE_ANNEX_B``
- 1
- Selecting this value specifies that H264 slices are expected
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst
index 00944e97d638..5021f1492856 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst
@@ -3631,7 +3631,9 @@ enum v4l2_mpeg_video_hevc_size_of_length_field -
* - ``V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_START_CODE_NONE``
- 0
- Selecting this value specifies that HEVC slices are passed
- to the driver without any start code.
+ to the driver without any start code. The bitstream data should be
+ according to :ref:`hevc` 7.3.1.1 General NAL unit syntax, hence
+ contains emulation prevention bytes when required.
* - ``V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_START_CODE_ANNEX_B``
- 1
- Selecting this value specifies that HEVC slices are expected
--
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