Re: [PATCH RFC v3 2/5] V4L: Add V4L2_PIX_FMT_S5C_UYVY_JPG fourcc definition

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Hi Sylwester,

On Thursday 27 September 2012 19:18:13 Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> On 09/27/2012 01:10 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 September 2012 17:54:10 Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> >> This patch adds definition of the Samsung S5C73M3 camera specific
> >> image format. V4L2_PIX_FMT_S5C_UYVY_JPG is a two-planar format,
> >> the  first plane contains interleaved UYVY and JPEG data followed
> >> by meta-data. The second plane contains additional meta-data needed
> >> for extracting JPEG and UYVY data stream from the first plane.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki<s.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park<kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> 
> >>   Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>   include/linux/videodev2.h                  |  1 +
> >>   2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml
> >> b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml index 1ddbfab..21284ba
> >> 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml
> >> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml
> >> @@ -996,6 +996,34 @@ the other bits are set to 0.</entry>
> >> 
> >>   	<entry>Old 6-bit greyscale format. Only the most significant 6 bits
> > 
> > of
> > 
> >> each byte are used, the other bits are set to 0.</entry>
> >> 
> >>   	</row>
> >> 
> >> +	<row id="V4L2-PIX-FMT-S5C-UYVY-JPG">
> >> +	<entry><constant>V4L2_PIX_FMT_S5C_UYVY_JPG</constant></entry>
> >> +	<entry>'S5CI'</entry>
> >> +	<entry>Two-planar format used by Samsung S5C73MX cameras. The
> >> +first plane contains interleaved JPEG and UYVY image data, followed by
> >> meta data in form of an array of offsets to the UYVY data blocks. The
> >> actual pointer array follows immediately the interleaved JPEG/UYVY data,
> >> the number of entries in this array equals the height of the UYVY image.
> >> Each entry is a 4-byte unsigned integer in big endian order and it's an
> >> offset to a single pixel line of the UYVY image. The first plane can
> >> start either with JPEG or UYVY data chunk. The size of a single UYVY
> >> block equals the UYVY image's width multiplied by 2. The size of a JPEG
> >> chunk depends on the image and can vary with each line.
> >> +<para>The second plane, at an offset of 4084 bytes, contains a 4-byte
> >> offset to the pointer array in the first plane. This offset is followed
> >> by a 4-byte value indicating size of the pointer array. All numbers in
> >> the second plane are also in big endian order. Remaining data in the
> >> first plane is undefined.
> > 
> > Do you mean "remaining data in the second plane is undefined." ?
> 
> Ah, right. Thank you for catching it.
> 
> > Can it still be useful for some applications, or is it complete garbage ?
> 
> I don't really know... I don't have good documentation for this. It is
> very likely there is some more interesting data in this 4 kiB buffer.
> So by "undefined" I meant "has undefined meaning" or "I don't know what's
> there at the moment"... From the requirements, it's only needed to decode
> the interleaved data and very likely won't be needed for anything else.
> 
> Perhaps I should change this sentence to
> "Remaining data in the first plane has undefined meaning." or drop it
> entirely ?

I'm fine with the text you proposed, I was just wondering.

> >> The information in the second plane allows to easily find location of the
> >> pointer array, which can be different for each frame. The size of the
> >> pointer array is +constant for given UYVY image height.</para>
> >> +<para>In order to extract UYVY and JPEG frames an application can
> >> initially set a data pointer to the start of first plane and then add an
> >> offset from the first entry of the pointers table. Such a pointer
> >> indicates start of an UYVY image pixel line. Whole UYVY line can be
> >> copied to a separate buffer. These steps should be repeated for each
> >> line, i.e. the number of entries in the pointer array. Anything what's
> >> in between the UYVY lines is JPEG data and should be concatenated to
> >> form the JPEG stream.</para>
> >> +</entry>
> >> +	</row>
> >> 
> >>   	</tbody>
> >>   	
> >>         </tgroup>
> >>       
> >>       </table>
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/include/linux/videodev2.h b/include/linux/videodev2.h
> >> index 8d29bb2..6c82ff5 100644
> >> --- a/include/linux/videodev2.h
> >> +++ b/include/linux/videodev2.h
> >> @@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ struct v4l2_pix_format {
> >> 
> >>   #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_KONICA420  v4l2_fourcc('K', 'O', 'N', 'I') /*
> >>   YUV420
> >> 
> >> planar in blocks of 256 pixels */ #define
> >> V4L2_PIX_FMT_JPGL	v4l2_fourcc('J', 'P', 'G', 'L') /* JPEG-Lite */ #define
> >> V4L2_PIX_FMT_SE401      v4l2_fourcc('S', '4', '0', '1') /* se401 janggu
> >> compressed rgb */ +#define V4L2_PIX_FMT_S5C_UYVY_JPG v4l2_fourcc('S',
> >> '5',
> >> 'C', 'J') /* S5C73M3 interleaved UYVY/JPEG */
> >> 
> >>   /*
> >>   
> >>    *	F O R M A T   E N U M E R A T I O N

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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