The Elgato Cam Link 4K HDMI video capture card reports to support three
different pixel formats, where the first format depends on the connected
HDMI device.
```
$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-formats-ext
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT
Type: Video Capture
[0]: 'NV12' (Y/CbCr 4:2:0)
Size: Discrete 3840x2160
Interval: Discrete 0.033s (29.970 fps)
[1]: 'NV12' (Y/CbCr 4:2:0)
Size: Discrete 3840x2160
Interval: Discrete 0.033s (29.970 fps)
[2]: 'YU12' (Planar YUV 4:2:0)
Size: Discrete 3840x2160
Interval: Discrete 0.033s (29.970 fps)
```
Changing the pixel format to anything besides the first pixel format
does not work:
```
v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --try-fmt-video pixelformat=YU12
Format Video Capture:
Width/Height : 3840/2160
Pixel Format : 'NV12' (Y/CbCr 4:2:0)
Field : None
Bytes per Line : 3840
Size Image : 12441600
Colorspace : sRGB
Transfer Function : Rec. 709
YCbCr/HSV Encoding: Rec. 709
Quantization : Default (maps to Limited Range)
Flags :
```
User space applications like VLC might show an error message on the
terminal in that case:
```
libv4l2: error set_fmt gave us a different result than try_fmt!
```
Depending on the error handling of the user space applications, they
might display a distorted video, because they use the wrong pixel format
for decoding the stream.
The Elgato Cam Link 4K responds to the USB video probe
VS_PROBE_CONTROL/VS_COMMIT_CONTROL with a malformed data structure: The
second byte contains bFormatIndex (instead of being the second byte of
bmHint). The first byte is always zero. The third byte is always 1.
The firmware bug was reported to Elgato on 2020-12-01 and it was
forwarded by the support team to the developers as feature request.
There is no firmware update available since then. The latest firmware
for Elgato Cam Link 4K as of 2021-03-23 has MCU 20.02.19 and FPGA 67.
Therefore add a quirk to correct the malformed data structure.
The quirk was successfully tested with VLC, OBS, and Chromium using
different pixel formats (YUYV, NV12, YU12), resolutions (3840x2160,
1920x1080), and frame rates (29.970 and 59.940 fps).
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 13 +++++++++++++
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
I am resending this patch since I got no response in the last three
weeks.
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
index 9a791d8ef200..6ce58950d78b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
@@ -3164,6 +3164,19 @@ static const struct usb_device_id uvc_ids[] = {
.bInterfaceSubClass = 1,
.bInterfaceProtocol = 0,
.driver_info = UVC_INFO_META(V4L2_META_FMT_D4XX) },
+ /*
+ * Elgato Cam Link 4K
+ * Latest firmware as of 2021-03-23 needs this quirk.
+ * MCU: 20.02.19, FPGA: 67
+ */
+ { .match_flags = USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_DEVICE
+ | USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_INT_INFO,
+ .idVendor = 0x0fd9,
+ .idProduct = 0x0066,
+ .bInterfaceClass = USB_CLASS_VIDEO,
+ .bInterfaceSubClass = 1,
+ .bInterfaceProtocol = 0,
+ .driver_info = UVC_INFO_QUIRK(UVC_QUIRK_FIX_FORMAT_INDEX) },
/* Generic USB Video Class */
{ USB_INTERFACE_INFO(USB_CLASS_VIDEO, 1, UVC_PC_PROTOCOL_UNDEFINED) },
{ USB_INTERFACE_INFO(USB_CLASS_VIDEO, 1, UVC_PC_PROTOCOL_15) },
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
index f2f565281e63..06a538d1008b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
@@ -128,6 +128,27 @@ static void uvc_fixup_video_ctrl(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
struct uvc_frame *frame = NULL;
unsigned int i;
+ /*
+ * The response of the Elgato Cam Link 4K is incorrect: The second byte
+ * contains bFormatIndex (instead of being the second byte of bmHint).
+ * The first byte is always zero. The third byte is always 1.
+ *
+ * The UVC 1.5 class specification defines the first five bits in the
+ * bmHint bitfield. The remaining bits are reserved and should be zero.
+ * Therefore a valid bmHint will be less than 32.
+ */
+ if (stream->dev->quirks & UVC_QUIRK_FIX_FORMAT_INDEX && ctrl->bmHint > 255) {
+ __u8 corrected_format_index;
+
+ corrected_format_index = ctrl->bmHint >> 8;
+ uvc_dbg(stream->dev, CONTROL,
+ "Correct USB video probe response from {bmHint: 0x%04x, bFormatIndex: 0x%02x} to {bmHint: 0x%04x, bFormatIndex: 0x%02x}.\n",
+ ctrl->bmHint, ctrl->bFormatIndex,
+ ctrl->bFormatIndex, corrected_format_index);
+ ctrl->bmHint = ctrl->bFormatIndex;
+ ctrl->bFormatIndex = corrected_format_index;
+ }
+
for (i = 0; i < stream->nformats; ++i) {
if (stream->format[i].index == ctrl->bFormatIndex) {
format = &stream->format[i];
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
index 97df5ecd66c9..bf401d5ba27d 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@
#define UVC_QUIRK_RESTORE_CTRLS_ON_INIT 0x00000400
#define UVC_QUIRK_FORCE_Y8 0x00000800
#define UVC_QUIRK_FORCE_BPP 0x00001000
+#define UVC_QUIRK_FIX_FORMAT_INDEX 0x00002000
/* Format flags */
#define UVC_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED 0x00000001
--
2.27.0
