On 9/16/12 7:28 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
On Sun September 16 2012 17:32:52 Georgi Chorbadzhiyski wrote:
Guys I'm adding v4l2 output device support for VLC/ffmpeg/libav (I'm using
v4l2loopback [1] driver for testing) but I have a problem which I can't seem
to find a solution.
VLC [2] uses VIDIOC_CROPCAP [3] to detect the pixelaspect ratio of the input
it receives from v4l2 device. But I can't seem to find a way to set struct
v4l2_cropcap.pixelaspect when I'm outputting data to the device and the
result is that VLC assumes pixelaspect is 1:1.
I was hoping that VIDIOC_S_CROP [4] would allow setting pixelaspect but
according to docs that is not case. What am I missing?
The pixelaspect ratio returned by CROPCAP depends on the current video standard
of the video receiver or transmitter.
So for video capture the pixelaspect depends on the standard (50 vs 60 Hz) and
the horizontal sampling frequency of the video receiver (hardware specific).
For video output the pixelaspect depends also on the standard and on how the
transmitter goes from digital to analog pixels (the reverse of what a receiver
does).
It is *not* the pixelaspect of the video data itself. For output it is the
pixel aspect that the transmitter expects. Any difference between the two will
need to be resolved somehow, typically by software or hardware scaling.
Since I'm using virtual output v4l2 loopback device this means I have to set the
standard somehow, right?
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Georgi Chorbadzhiyski
http://georgi.unixsol.org/
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