On 09/13/2013 11:54 PM, vkalia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi > > For video decoder, our video driver, which is V4l2 based, exposes two > capabilities: > > 1. V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_OUTPUT_MPLANE for transaction of compressed buffers. > 2. V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE_MPLANE for transaction of > decoded/uncompressed buffers. > > We have a requirement to propagate "user specific data" from compressed > buffer to uncompressed buffer. We are not able to find any field in > "struct v4l2_buffer" which can be used for this purpose. Please suggest if > this can be achieved with current V4L2 framework. It depends how the user data is organized. If it is situated right before the actual data, then the data_offset field of v4l2_plane can be used. If it is an independent piece of data, then you can pass it on in an additional plane. Regards, Hans -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html