Devices typically have a number of user-settable controls such as brightness, saturation and so on, which would be presented to the user on a graphical user interface. But, different devices will have different controls available, and furthermore, the range of possible values, and the default value will vary from device to device. The control ioctls provide the information and a mechanism to create a nice user interface for these controls that will work correctly with any device. All controls are accessed using an ID value. V4L2 defines several IDs for specific purposes. Drivers can also implement their own custom controls using V4L2_CID_PRIVATE_BASE and higher values. The pre-defined control IDs have the prefix V4L2_CID_, and are listed in . The ID is used when querying the attributes of a control, and when getting or setting the current value. Generally applications should present controls to the user without assumptions about their purpose. Each control comes with a name string the user is supposed to understand. When the purpose is non-intuitive the driver writer should provide a user manual, a user interface plug-in or a driver specific panel application. Predefined IDs were introduced to change a few controls programmatically, for example to mute a device during a channel switch. Drivers may enumerate different controls after switching the current video input or output, tuner or modulator, or audio input or output. Different in the sense of other bounds, another default and current value, step size or other menu items. A control with a certain custom ID can also change name and type. It will be more convenient for applications if drivers make use of the V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DISABLED flag, but that was never required. Control values are stored globally, they do not change when switching except to stay within the reported bounds. They also do not change ⪚ when the device is opened or closed, when the tuner radio frequency is changed or generally never without application request. Since V4L2 specifies no event mechanism, panel applications intended to cooperate with other panel applications (be they built into a larger application, as a TV viewer) may need to regularly poll control values to update their user interface. Applications could call an ioctl to request events. After another process called &VIDIOC-S-CTRL; or another ioctl changing shared properties the &func-select; function would indicate readability until any ioctl (querying the properties) is called. All controls use machine endianness. &cs-def; ID Type Description V4L2_CID_BASE First predefined ID, equal to V4L2_CID_BRIGHTNESS. V4L2_CID_USER_BASE Synonym of V4L2_CID_BASE. V4L2_CID_BRIGHTNESS integer Picture brightness, or more precisely, the black level. V4L2_CID_CONTRAST integer Picture contrast or luma gain. V4L2_CID_SATURATION integer Picture color saturation or chroma gain. V4L2_CID_HUE integer Hue or color balance. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_VOLUME integer Overall audio volume. Note some drivers also provide an OSS or ALSA mixer interface. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_BALANCE integer Audio stereo balance. Minimum corresponds to all the way left, maximum to right. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_BASS integer Audio bass adjustment. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_TREBLE integer Audio treble adjustment. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_MUTE boolean Mute audio, &ie; set the volume to zero, however without affecting V4L2_CID_AUDIO_VOLUME. Like ALSA drivers, V4L2 drivers must mute at load time to avoid excessive noise. Actually the entire device should be reset to a low power consumption state. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_LOUDNESS boolean Loudness mode (bass boost). V4L2_CID_BLACK_LEVEL integer Another name for brightness (not a synonym of V4L2_CID_BRIGHTNESS). This control is deprecated and should not be used in new drivers and applications. V4L2_CID_AUTO_WHITE_BALANCE boolean Automatic white balance (cameras). V4L2_CID_DO_WHITE_BALANCE button This is an action control. When set (the value is ignored), the device will do a white balance and then hold the current setting. Contrast this with the boolean V4L2_CID_AUTO_WHITE_BALANCE, which, when activated, keeps adjusting the white balance. V4L2_CID_RED_BALANCE integer Red chroma balance. V4L2_CID_BLUE_BALANCE integer Blue chroma balance. V4L2_CID_GAMMA integer Gamma adjust. V4L2_CID_WHITENESS integer Whiteness for grey-scale devices. This is a synonym for V4L2_CID_GAMMA. This control is deprecated and should not be used in new drivers and applications. V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE integer Exposure (cameras). [Unit?] V4L2_CID_AUTOGAIN boolean Automatic gain/exposure control. V4L2_CID_GAIN integer Gain control. V4L2_CID_HFLIP boolean Mirror the picture horizontally. V4L2_CID_VFLIP boolean Mirror the picture vertically. V4L2_CID_POWER_LINE_FREQUENCY enum Enables a power line frequency filter to avoid flicker. Possible values for enum v4l2_power_line_frequency are: V4L2_CID_POWER_LINE_FREQUENCY_DISABLED (0), V4L2_CID_POWER_LINE_FREQUENCY_50HZ (1), V4L2_CID_POWER_LINE_FREQUENCY_60HZ (2) and V4L2_CID_POWER_LINE_FREQUENCY_AUTO (3). V4L2_CID_HUE_AUTO boolean Enables automatic hue control by the device. The effect of setting V4L2_CID_HUE while automatic hue control is enabled is undefined, drivers should ignore such request. V4L2_CID_WHITE_BALANCE_TEMPERATURE integer This control specifies the white balance settings as a color temperature in Kelvin. A driver should have a minimum of 2800 (incandescent) to 6500 (daylight). For more information about color temperature see Wikipedia. V4L2_CID_SHARPNESS integer Adjusts the sharpness filters in a camera. The minimum value disables the filters, higher values give a sharper picture. V4L2_CID_BACKLIGHT_COMPENSATION integer Adjusts the backlight compensation in a camera. The minimum value disables backlight compensation. V4L2_CID_CHROMA_AGC boolean Chroma automatic gain control. V4L2_CID_CHROMA_GAIN integer Adjusts the Chroma gain control (for use when chroma AGC is disabled). V4L2_CID_COLOR_KILLER boolean Enable the color killer (&ie; force a black & white image in case of a weak video signal). V4L2_CID_COLORFX enum Selects a color effect. The following values are defined: V4L2_COLORFX_NONE  Color effect is disabled. V4L2_COLORFX_ANTIQUE  An aging (old photo) effect. V4L2_COLORFX_ART_FREEZE  Frost color effect. V4L2_COLORFX_AQUA  Water color, cool tone. V4L2_COLORFX_BW  Black and white. V4L2_COLORFX_EMBOSS  Emboss, the highlights and shadows replace light/dark boundaries and low contrast areas are set to a gray background. V4L2_COLORFX_GRASS_GREEN  Grass green. V4L2_COLORFX_NEGATIVE  Negative. V4L2_COLORFX_SEPIA  Sepia tone. V4L2_COLORFX_SKETCH  Sketch. V4L2_COLORFX_SKIN_WHITEN  Skin whiten. V4L2_COLORFX_SKY_BLUE  Sky blue. V4L2_COLORFX_SOLARIZATION  Solarization, the image is partially reversed in tone, only color values above or below a certain threshold are inverted. V4L2_COLORFX_SILHOUETTE  Silhouette (outline). V4L2_COLORFX_VIVID  Vivid colors. V4L2_COLORFX_SET_CBCR  The Cb and Cr chroma components are replaced by fixed coefficients determined by V4L2_CID_COLORFX_CBCR control. V4L2_CID_COLORFX_CBCR integer Determines the Cb and Cr coefficients for V4L2_COLORFX_SET_CBCR color effect. Bits [7:0] of the supplied 32 bit value are interpreted as Cr component, bits [15:8] as Cb component and bits [31:16] must be zero. V4L2_CID_AUTOBRIGHTNESS boolean Enable Automatic Brightness. V4L2_CID_ROTATE integer Rotates the image by specified angle. Common angles are 90, 270 and 180. Rotating the image to 90 and 270 will reverse the height and width of the display window. It is necessary to set the new height and width of the picture using the &VIDIOC-S-FMT; ioctl according to the rotation angle selected. V4L2_CID_BG_COLOR integer Sets the background color on the current output device. Background color needs to be specified in the RGB24 format. The supplied 32 bit value is interpreted as bits 0-7 Red color information, bits 8-15 Green color information, bits 16-23 Blue color information and bits 24-31 must be zero. V4L2_CID_ILLUMINATORS_1 V4L2_CID_ILLUMINATORS_2 boolean Switch on or off the illuminator 1 or 2 of the device (usually a microscope). V4L2_CID_MIN_BUFFERS_FOR_CAPTURE integer This is a read-only control that can be read by the application and used as a hint to determine the number of CAPTURE buffers to pass to REQBUFS. The value is the minimum number of CAPTURE buffers that is necessary for hardware to work. V4L2_CID_MIN_BUFFERS_FOR_OUTPUT integer This is a read-only control that can be read by the application and used as a hint to determine the number of OUTPUT buffers to pass to REQBUFS. The value is the minimum number of OUTPUT buffers that is necessary for hardware to work. V4L2_CID_ALPHA_COMPONENT integer Sets the alpha color component on the capture device or on the capture buffer queue of a mem-to-mem device. When a mem-to-mem device produces frame format that includes an alpha component (e.g. packed RGB image formats) and the alpha value is not defined by the mem-to-mem input data this control lets you select the alpha component value of all pixels. It is applicable to any pixel format that contains an alpha component. V4L2_CID_LASTP1 End of the predefined control IDs (currently V4L2_CID_ALPHA_COMPONENT + 1). V4L2_CID_PRIVATE_BASE ID of the first custom (driver specific) control. Applications depending on particular custom controls should check the driver name and version, see . Applications can enumerate the available controls with the &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL; and &VIDIOC-QUERYMENU; ioctls, get and set a control value with the &VIDIOC-G-CTRL; and &VIDIOC-S-CTRL; ioctls. Drivers must implement VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL, VIDIOC_G_CTRL and VIDIOC_S_CTRL when the device has one or more controls, VIDIOC_QUERYMENU when it has one or more menu type controls. &v4l2-queryctrl; queryctrl; &v4l2-querymenu; querymenu; static void enumerate_menu (void) { printf (" Menu items:\n"); memset (&querymenu, 0, sizeof (querymenu)); querymenu.id = queryctrl.id; for (querymenu.index = queryctrl.minimum; querymenu.index <= queryctrl.maximum; querymenu.index++) { if (0 == ioctl (fd, &VIDIOC-QUERYMENU;, &querymenu)) { printf (" %s\n", querymenu.name); } } } memset (&queryctrl, 0, sizeof (queryctrl)); for (queryctrl.id = V4L2_CID_BASE; queryctrl.id < V4L2_CID_LASTP1; queryctrl.id++) { if (0 == ioctl (fd, &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL;, &queryctrl)) { if (queryctrl.flags & V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DISABLED) continue; printf ("Control %s\n", queryctrl.name); if (queryctrl.type == V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_MENU) enumerate_menu (); } else { if (errno == EINVAL) continue; perror ("VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL"); exit (EXIT_FAILURE); } } for (queryctrl.id = V4L2_CID_PRIVATE_BASE;; queryctrl.id++) { if (0 == ioctl (fd, &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL;, &queryctrl)) { if (queryctrl.flags & V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DISABLED) continue; printf ("Control %s\n", queryctrl.name); if (queryctrl.type == V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_MENU) enumerate_menu (); } else { if (errno == EINVAL) break; perror ("VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL"); exit (EXIT_FAILURE); } } &v4l2-queryctrl; queryctrl; &v4l2-control; control; memset (&queryctrl, 0, sizeof (queryctrl)); queryctrl.id = V4L2_CID_BRIGHTNESS; if (-1 == ioctl (fd, &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL;, &queryctrl)) { if (errno != EINVAL) { perror ("VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL"); exit (EXIT_FAILURE); } else { printf ("V4L2_CID_BRIGHTNESS is not supported\n"); } } else if (queryctrl.flags & V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DISABLED) { printf ("V4L2_CID_BRIGHTNESS is not supported\n"); } else { memset (&control, 0, sizeof (control)); control.id = V4L2_CID_BRIGHTNESS; control.value = queryctrl.default_value; if (-1 == ioctl (fd, &VIDIOC-S-CTRL;, &control)) { perror ("VIDIOC_S_CTRL"); exit (EXIT_FAILURE); } } memset (&control, 0, sizeof (control)); control.id = V4L2_CID_CONTRAST; if (0 == ioctl (fd, &VIDIOC-G-CTRL;, &control)) { control.value += 1; /* The driver may clamp the value or return ERANGE, ignored here */ if (-1 == ioctl (fd, &VIDIOC-S-CTRL;, &control) && errno != ERANGE) { perror ("VIDIOC_S_CTRL"); exit (EXIT_FAILURE); } /* Ignore if V4L2_CID_CONTRAST is unsupported */ } else if (errno != EINVAL) { perror ("VIDIOC_G_CTRL"); exit (EXIT_FAILURE); } control.id = V4L2_CID_AUDIO_MUTE; control.value = TRUE; /* silence */ /* Errors ignored */ ioctl (fd, VIDIOC_S_CTRL, &control);

The control mechanism as originally designed was meant to be used for user settings (brightness, saturation, etc). However, it turned out to be a very useful model for implementing more complicated driver APIs where each driver implements only a subset of a larger API. The MPEG encoding API was the driving force behind designing and implementing this extended control mechanism: the MPEG standard is quite large and the currently supported hardware MPEG encoders each only implement a subset of this standard. Further more, many parameters relating to how the video is encoded into an MPEG stream are specific to the MPEG encoding chip since the MPEG standard only defines the format of the resulting MPEG stream, not how the video is actually encoded into that format. Unfortunately, the original control API lacked some features needed for these new uses and so it was extended into the (not terribly originally named) extended control API. Even though the MPEG encoding API was the first effort to use the Extended Control API, nowadays there are also other classes of Extended Controls, such as Camera Controls and FM Transmitter Controls. The Extended Controls API as well as all Extended Controls classes are described in the following text.

Three new ioctls are available: &VIDIOC-G-EXT-CTRLS;, &VIDIOC-S-EXT-CTRLS; and &VIDIOC-TRY-EXT-CTRLS;. These ioctls act on arrays of controls (as opposed to the &VIDIOC-G-CTRL; and &VIDIOC-S-CTRL; ioctls that act on a single control). This is needed since it is often required to atomically change several controls at once. Each of the new ioctls expects a pointer to a &v4l2-ext-controls;. This structure contains a pointer to the control array, a count of the number of controls in that array and a control class. Control classes are used to group similar controls into a single class. For example, control class V4L2_CTRL_CLASS_USER contains all user controls (&ie; all controls that can also be set using the old VIDIOC_S_CTRL ioctl). Control class V4L2_CTRL_CLASS_MPEG contains all controls relating to MPEG encoding, etc. All controls in the control array must belong to the specified control class. An error is returned if this is not the case. It is also possible to use an empty control array (count == 0) to check whether the specified control class is supported. The control array is a &v4l2-ext-control; array. The v4l2_ext_control structure is very similar to &v4l2-control;, except for the fact that it also allows for 64-bit values and pointers to be passed. It is important to realize that due to the flexibility of controls it is necessary to check whether the control you want to set actually is supported in the driver and what the valid range of values is. So use the &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL; and &VIDIOC-QUERYMENU; ioctls to check this. Also note that it is possible that some of the menu indices in a control of type V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_MENU may not be supported (VIDIOC_QUERYMENU will return an error). A good example is the list of supported MPEG audio bitrates. Some drivers only support one or two bitrates, others support a wider range. All controls use machine endianness.

The recommended way to enumerate over the extended controls is by using &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL; in combination with the V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL flag: &v4l2-queryctrl; qctrl; qctrl.id = V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL; while (0 == ioctl (fd, &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL;, &qctrl)) { /* ... */ qctrl.id |= V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL; } The initial control ID is set to 0 ORed with the V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL flag. The VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL ioctl will return the first control with a higher ID than the specified one. When no such controls are found an error is returned. If you want to get all controls within a specific control class, then you can set the initial qctrl.id value to the control class and add an extra check to break out of the loop when a control of another control class is found: qctrl.id = V4L2_CTRL_CLASS_MPEG | V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL; while (0 == ioctl (fd, &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL;, &qctrl)) { if (V4L2_CTRL_ID2CLASS (qctrl.id) != V4L2_CTRL_CLASS_MPEG) break; /* ... */ qctrl.id |= V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL; } The 32-bit qctrl.id value is subdivided into three bit ranges: the top 4 bits are reserved for flags (⪚ V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL) and are not actually part of the ID. The remaining 28 bits form the control ID, of which the most significant 12 bits define the control class and the least significant 16 bits identify the control within the control class. It is guaranteed that these last 16 bits are always non-zero for controls. The range of 0x1000 and up are reserved for driver-specific controls. The macro V4L2_CTRL_ID2CLASS(id) returns the control class ID based on a control ID. If the driver does not support extended controls, then VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL will fail when used in combination with V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL. In that case the old method of enumerating control should be used (see 1.8). But if it is supported, then it is guaranteed to enumerate over all controls, including driver-private controls.

It is possible to create control panels for a graphical user interface where the user can select the various controls. Basically you will have to iterate over all controls using the method described above. Each control class starts with a control of type V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_CTRL_CLASS. VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL will return the name of this control class which can be used as the title of a tab page within a control panel. The flags field of &v4l2-queryctrl; also contains hints on the behavior of the control. See the &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL; documentation for more details.

Below all controls within the Codec control class are described. First the generic controls, then controls specific for certain hardware. Note: These controls are applicable to all codecs and not just MPEG. The defines are prefixed with V4L2_CID_MPEG/V4L2_MPEG as the controls were originally made for MPEG codecs and later extended to cover all encoding formats.

ID Type Description V4L2_CID_MPEG_CLASS  class The Codec class descriptor. Calling &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL; for this control will return a description of this control class. This description can be used as the caption of a Tab page in a GUI, for example. V4L2_CID_MPEG_STREAM_TYPE  enum v4l2_mpeg_stream_type The MPEG-1, -2 or -4 output stream type. One cannot assume anything here. Each hardware MPEG encoder tends to support different subsets of the available MPEG stream types. This control is specific to multiplexed MPEG streams. The currently defined stream types are: V4L2_MPEG_STREAM_TYPE_MPEG2_PS  MPEG-2 program stream V4L2_MPEG_STREAM_TYPE_MPEG2_TS  MPEG-2 transport stream V4L2_MPEG_STREAM_TYPE_MPEG1_SS  MPEG-1 system stream V4L2_MPEG_STREAM_TYPE_MPEG2_DVD  MPEG-2 DVD-compatible stream V4L2_MPEG_STREAM_TYPE_MPEG1_VCD  MPEG-1 VCD-compatible stream V4L2_MPEG_STREAM_TYPE_MPEG2_SVCD  MPEG-2 SVCD-compatible stream V4L2_CID_MPEG_STREAM_PID_PMT  integer Program Map Table Packet ID for the MPEG transport stream (default 16) V4L2_CID_MPEG_STREAM_PID_AUDIO  integer Audio Packet ID for the MPEG transport stream (default 256) V4L2_CID_MPEG_STREAM_PID_VIDEO  integer Video Packet ID for the MPEG transport stream (default 260) V4L2_CID_MPEG_STREAM_PID_PCR  integer Packet ID for the MPEG transport stream carrying PCR fields (default 259) V4L2_CID_MPEG_STREAM_PES_ID_AUDIO  integer Audio ID for MPEG PES V4L2_CID_MPEG_STREAM_PES_ID_VIDEO  integer Video ID for MPEG PES V4L2_CID_MPEG_STREAM_VBI_FMT  enum v4l2_mpeg_stream_vbi_fmt Some cards can embed VBI data (⪚ Closed Caption, Teletext) into the MPEG stream. This control selects whether VBI data should be embedded, and if so, what embedding method should be used. The list of possible VBI formats depends on the driver. The currently defined VBI format types are: V4L2_MPEG_STREAM_VBI_FMT_NONE  No VBI in the MPEG stream V4L2_MPEG_STREAM_VBI_FMT_IVTV  VBI in private packets, IVTV format (documented in the kernel sources in the file Documentation/video4linux/cx2341x/README.vbi) V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_SAMPLING_FREQ  enum v4l2_mpeg_audio_sampling_freq MPEG Audio sampling frequency. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_SAMPLING_FREQ_44100  44.1 kHz V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_SAMPLING_FREQ_48000  48 kHz V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_SAMPLING_FREQ_32000  32 kHz V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_ENCODING  enum v4l2_mpeg_audio_encoding MPEG Audio encoding. This control is specific to multiplexed MPEG streams. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_ENCODING_LAYER_1  MPEG-1/2 Layer I encoding V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_ENCODING_LAYER_2  MPEG-1/2 Layer II encoding V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_ENCODING_LAYER_3  MPEG-1/2 Layer III encoding V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_ENCODING_AAC  MPEG-2/4 AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_ENCODING_AC3  AC-3 aka ATSC A/52 encoding V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE  enum v4l2_mpeg_audio_l1_bitrate MPEG-1/2 Layer I bitrate. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_32K  32 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_64K  64 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_96K  96 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_128K  128 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_160K  160 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_192K  192 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_224K  224 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_256K  256 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_288K  288 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_320K  320 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_352K  352 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_384K  384 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_416K  416 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L1_BITRATE_448K  448 kbit/s V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE  enum v4l2_mpeg_audio_l2_bitrate MPEG-1/2 Layer II bitrate. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_32K  32 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_48K  48 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_56K  56 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_64K  64 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_80K  80 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_96K  96 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_112K  112 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_128K  128 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_160K  160 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_192K  192 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_224K  224 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_256K  256 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_320K  320 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L2_BITRATE_384K  384 kbit/s V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE  enum v4l2_mpeg_audio_l3_bitrate MPEG-1/2 Layer III bitrate. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_32K  32 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_40K  40 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_48K  48 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_56K  56 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_64K  64 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_80K  80 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_96K  96 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_112K  112 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_128K  128 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_160K  160 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_192K  192 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_224K  224 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_256K  256 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_L3_BITRATE_320K  320 kbit/s V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_AAC_BITRATE  integer AAC bitrate in bits per second. V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE  enum v4l2_mpeg_audio_ac3_bitrate AC-3 bitrate. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_32K  32 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_40K  40 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_48K  48 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_56K  56 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_64K  64 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_80K  80 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_96K  96 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_112K  112 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_128K  128 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_160K  160 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_192K  192 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_224K  224 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_256K  256 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_320K  320 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_384K  384 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_448K  448 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_512K  512 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_576K  576 kbit/s V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_AC3_BITRATE_640K  640 kbit/s V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_MODE  enum v4l2_mpeg_audio_mode MPEG Audio mode. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_MODE_STEREO  Stereo V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_MODE_JOINT_STEREO  Joint Stereo V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_MODE_DUAL  Bilingual V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_MODE_MONO  Mono V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_MODE_EXTENSION  enum v4l2_mpeg_audio_mode_extension Joint Stereo audio mode extension. In Layer I and II they indicate which subbands are in intensity stereo. All other subbands are coded in stereo. Layer III is not (yet) supported. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_MODE_EXTENSION_BOUND_4  Subbands 4-31 in intensity stereo V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_MODE_EXTENSION_BOUND_8  Subbands 8-31 in intensity stereo V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_MODE_EXTENSION_BOUND_12  Subbands 12-31 in intensity stereo V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_MODE_EXTENSION_BOUND_16  Subbands 16-31 in intensity stereo V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_EMPHASIS  enum v4l2_mpeg_audio_emphasis Audio Emphasis. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_EMPHASIS_NONE  None V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_EMPHASIS_50_DIV_15_uS  50/15 microsecond emphasis V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_EMPHASIS_CCITT_J17  CCITT J.17 V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_CRC  enum v4l2_mpeg_audio_crc CRC method. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_CRC_NONE  None V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_CRC_CRC16  16 bit parity check V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_MUTE  boolean Mutes the audio when capturing. This is not done by muting audio hardware, which can still produce a slight hiss, but in the encoder itself, guaranteeing a fixed and reproducible audio bitstream. 0 = unmuted, 1 = muted. V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_DEC_PLAYBACK  enum v4l2_mpeg_audio_dec_playback Determines how monolingual audio should be played back. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_DEC_PLAYBACK_AUTO  Automatically determines the best playback mode. V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_DEC_PLAYBACK_STEREO  Stereo playback. V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_DEC_PLAYBACK_LEFT  Left channel playback. V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_DEC_PLAYBACK_RIGHT  Right channel playback. V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_DEC_PLAYBACK_MONO  Mono playback. V4L2_MPEG_AUDIO_DEC_PLAYBACK_SWAPPED_STEREO  Stereo playback with swapped left and right channels. V4L2_CID_MPEG_AUDIO_DEC_MULTILINGUAL_PLAYBACK  enum v4l2_mpeg_audio_dec_playback Determines how multilingual audio should be played back. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_ENCODING  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_encoding MPEG Video encoding method. This control is specific to multiplexed MPEG streams. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_ENCODING_MPEG_1  MPEG-1 Video encoding V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_ENCODING_MPEG_2  MPEG-2 Video encoding V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_ENCODING_MPEG_4_AVC  MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) Video encoding V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_ASPECT  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_aspect Video aspect. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_ASPECT_1x1  V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_ASPECT_4x3  V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_ASPECT_16x9  V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_ASPECT_221x100  V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_B_FRAMES  integer Number of B-Frames (default 2) V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_GOP_SIZE  integer GOP size (default 12) V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_GOP_CLOSURE  boolean GOP closure (default 1) V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_PULLDOWN  boolean Enable 3:2 pulldown (default 0) V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE_MODE  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_bitrate_mode Video bitrate mode. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE_MODE_VBR  Variable bitrate V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE_MODE_CBR  Constant bitrate V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE  integer Video bitrate in bits per second. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_BITRATE_PEAK  integer Peak video bitrate in bits per second. Must be larger or equal to the average video bitrate. It is ignored if the video bitrate mode is set to constant bitrate. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_TEMPORAL_DECIMATION  integer For every captured frame, skip this many subsequent frames (default 0). V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MUTE  boolean "Mutes" the video to a fixed color when capturing. This is useful for testing, to produce a fixed video bitstream. 0 = unmuted, 1 = muted. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MUTE_YUV  integer Sets the "mute" color of the video. The supplied 32-bit integer is interpreted as follows (bit 0 = least significant bit): Bit 0:7 V chrominance information Bit 8:15 U chrominance information Bit 16:23 Y luminance information Bit 24:31 Must be zero. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_DEC_PTS  integer64 This read-only control returns the 33-bit video Presentation Time Stamp as defined in ITU T-REC-H.222.0 and ISO/IEC 13818-1 of the currently displayed frame. This is the same PTS as is used in &VIDIOC-DECODER-CMD;. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_DEC_FRAME  integer64 This read-only control returns the frame counter of the frame that is currently displayed (decoded). This value is reset to 0 whenever the decoder is started. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_DECODER_SLICE_INTERFACE  boolean If enabled the decoder expects to receive a single slice per buffer, otherwise the decoder expects a single frame in per buffer. Applicable to the decoder, all codecs. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_ENABLE  boolean Enable writing sample aspect ratio in the Video Usability Information. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_h264_vui_sar_idc VUI sample aspect ratio indicator for H.264 encoding. The value is defined in the table E-1 in the standard. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_UNSPECIFIED  Unspecified V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_1x1  1x1 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_12x11  12x11 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_10x11  10x11 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_16x11  16x11 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_40x33  40x33 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_24x11  24x11 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_20x11  20x11 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_32x11  32x11 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_80x33  80x33 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_18x11  18x11 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_15x11  15x11 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_64x33  64x33 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_160x99  160x99 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_4x3  4x3 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_3x2  3x2 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_2x1  2x1 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_SAR_IDC_EXTENDED  Extended SAR V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_EXT_SAR_WIDTH  integer Extended sample aspect ratio width for H.264 VUI encoding. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_VUI_EXT_SAR_HEIGHT  integer Extended sample aspect ratio height for H.264 VUI encoding. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_h264_level The level information for the H264 video elementary stream. Applicable to the H264 encoder. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_1_0  Level 1.0 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_1B  Level 1B V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_1_1  Level 1.1 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_1_2  Level 1.2 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_1_3  Level 1.3 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_2_0  Level 2.0 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_2_1  Level 2.1 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_2_2  Level 2.2 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_3_0  Level 3.0 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_3_1  Level 3.1 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_3_2  Level 3.2 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_4_0  Level 4.0 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_4_1  Level 4.1 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_4_2  Level 4.2 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_5_0  Level 5.0 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LEVEL_5_1  Level 5.1 V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG4_LEVEL  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_mpeg4_level The level information for the MPEG4 elementary stream. Applicable to the MPEG4 encoder. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_LEVEL_0  Level 0 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_LEVEL_0B  Level 0b V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_LEVEL_1  Level 1 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_LEVEL_2  Level 2 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_LEVEL_3  Level 3 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_LEVEL_3B  Level 3b V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_LEVEL_4  Level 4 V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_LEVEL_5  Level 5 V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_h264_profile The profile information for H264. Applicable to the H264 encoder. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_BASELINE  Baseline profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_CONSTRAINED_BASELINE  Constrained Baseline profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_MAIN  Main profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_EXTENDED  Extended profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_HIGH  High profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_HIGH_10  High 10 profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_HIGH_422  High 422 profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_HIGH_444_PREDICTIVE  High 444 Predictive profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_HIGH_10_INTRA  High 10 Intra profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_HIGH_422_INTRA  High 422 Intra profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_HIGH_444_INTRA  High 444 Intra profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_CAVLC_444_INTRA  CAVLC 444 Intra profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_SCALABLE_BASELINE  Scalable Baseline profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_SCALABLE_HIGH  Scalable High profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_SCALABLE_HIGH_INTRA  Scalable High Intra profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_STEREO_HIGH  Stereo High profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_PROFILE_MULTIVIEW_HIGH  Multiview High profile V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG4_PROFILE  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_mpeg4_profile The profile information for MPEG4. Applicable to the MPEG4 encoder. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_PROFILE_SIMPLE  Simple profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_PROFILE_ADVANCED_SIMPLE  Advanced Simple profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_PROFILE_CORE  Core profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_PROFILE_SIMPLE_SCALABLE  Simple Scalable profile V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_PROFILE_ADVANCED_CODING_EFFICIENCY  V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MAX_REF_PIC  integer The maximum number of reference pictures used for encoding. Applicable to the encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MULTI_SLICE_MODE  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_multi_slice_mode Determines how the encoder should handle division of frame into slices. Applicable to the encoder. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_MULTI_SLICE_MODE_SINGLE  Single slice per frame. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_MULTI_SLICE_MODE_MAX_MB  Multiple slices with set maximum number of macroblocks per slice. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_MULTI_SLICE_MODE_MAX_BYTES  Multiple slice with set maximum size in bytes per slice. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MULTI_SLICE_MAX_MB  integer The maximum number of macroblocks in a slice. Used when V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MULTI_SLICE_MODE is set to V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_MULTI_SLICE_MODE_MAX_MB. Applicable to the encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MULTI_SLICE_MAX_BYTES  integer The maximum size of a slice in bytes. Used when V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MULTI_SLICE_MODE is set to V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_MULTI_SLICE_MODE_MAX_BYTES. Applicable to the encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LOOP_FILTER_MODE  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_h264_loop_filter_mode Loop filter mode for H264 encoder. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LOOP_FILTER_MODE_ENABLED  Loop filter is enabled. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LOOP_FILTER_MODE_DISABLED  Loop filter is disabled. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LOOP_FILTER_MODE_DISABLED_AT_SLICE_BOUNDARY  Loop filter is disabled at the slice boundary. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LOOP_FILTER_ALPHA  integer Loop filter alpha coefficient, defined in the H264 standard. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_LOOP_FILTER_BETA  integer Loop filter beta coefficient, defined in the H264 standard. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_ENTROPY_MODE  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_h264_entropy_mode Entropy coding mode for H264 - CABAC/CAVALC. Applicable to the H264 encoder. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_ENTROPY_MODE_CAVLC  Use CAVLC entropy coding. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_ENTROPY_MODE_CABAC  Use CABAC entropy coding. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_8X8_TRANSFORM  boolean Enable 8X8 transform for H264. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_CYCLIC_INTRA_REFRESH_MB  integer Cyclic intra macroblock refresh. This is the number of continuous macroblocks refreshed every frame. Each frame a successive set of macroblocks is refreshed until the cycle completes and starts from the top of the frame. Applicable to H264, H263 and MPEG4 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_FRAME_RC_ENABLE  boolean Frame level rate control enable. If this control is disabled then the quantization parameter for each frame type is constant and set with appropriate controls (e.g. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H263_I_FRAME_QP). If frame rate control is enabled then quantization parameter is adjusted to meet the chosen bitrate. Minimum and maximum value for the quantization parameter can be set with appropriate controls (e.g. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H263_MIN_QP). Applicable to encoders. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MB_RC_ENABLE  boolean Macroblock level rate control enable. Applicable to the MPEG4 and H264 encoders. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG4_QPEL  boolean Quarter pixel motion estimation for MPEG4. Applicable to the MPEG4 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H263_I_FRAME_QP  integer Quantization parameter for an I frame for H263. Valid range: from 1 to 31. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H263_MIN_QP  integer Minimum quantization parameter for H263. Valid range: from 1 to 31. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H263_MAX_QP  integer Maximum quantization parameter for H263. Valid range: from 1 to 31. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H263_P_FRAME_QP  integer Quantization parameter for an P frame for H263. Valid range: from 1 to 31. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H263_B_FRAME_QP  integer Quantization parameter for an B frame for H263. Valid range: from 1 to 31. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_I_FRAME_QP  integer Quantization parameter for an I frame for H264. Valid range: from 0 to 51. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_MIN_QP  integer Minimum quantization parameter for H264. Valid range: from 0 to 51. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_MAX_QP  integer Maximum quantization parameter for H264. Valid range: from 0 to 51. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_P_FRAME_QP  integer Quantization parameter for an P frame for H264. Valid range: from 0 to 51. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_B_FRAME_QP  integer Quantization parameter for an B frame for H264. Valid range: from 0 to 51. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG4_I_FRAME_QP  integer Quantization parameter for an I frame for MPEG4. Valid range: from 1 to 31. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG4_MIN_QP  integer Minimum quantization parameter for MPEG4. Valid range: from 1 to 31. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG4_MAX_QP  integer Maximum quantization parameter for MPEG4. Valid range: from 1 to 31. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG4_P_FRAME_QP  integer Quantization parameter for an P frame for MPEG4. Valid range: from 1 to 31. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG4_B_FRAME_QP  integer Quantization parameter for an B frame for MPEG4. Valid range: from 1 to 31. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VBV_SIZE  integer The Video Buffer Verifier size in kilobytes, it is used as a limitation of frame skip. The VBV is defined in the standard as a mean to verify that the produced stream will be successfully decoded. The standard describes it as "Part of a hypothetical decoder that is conceptually connected to the output of the encoder. Its purpose is to provide a constraint on the variability of the data rate that an encoder or editing process may produce.". Applicable to the MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4 encoders. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VBV_DELAY  integer Sets the initial delay in milliseconds for VBV buffer control. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MV_H_SEARCH_RANGE  integer Horizontal search range defines maximum horizontal search area in pixels to search and match for the present Macroblock (MB) in the reference picture. This V4L2 control macro is used to set horizontal search range for motion estimation module in video encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MV_V_SEARCH_RANGE  integer Vertical search range defines maximum vertical search area in pixels to search and match for the present Macroblock (MB) in the reference picture. This V4L2 control macro is used to set vertical search range for motion estimation module in video encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_CPB_SIZE  integer The Coded Picture Buffer size in kilobytes, it is used as a limitation of frame skip. The CPB is defined in the H264 standard as a mean to verify that the produced stream will be successfully decoded. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_I_PERIOD  integer Period between I-frames in the open GOP for H264. In case of an open GOP this is the period between two I-frames. The period between IDR (Instantaneous Decoding Refresh) frames is taken from the GOP_SIZE control. An IDR frame, which stands for Instantaneous Decoding Refresh is an I-frame after which no prior frames are referenced. This means that a stream can be restarted from an IDR frame without the need to store or decode any previous frames. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEADER_MODE  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_header_mode Determines whether the header is returned as the first buffer or is it returned together with the first frame. Applicable to encoders. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_HEADER_MODE_SEPARATE  The stream header is returned separately in the first buffer. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_HEADER_MODE_JOINED_WITH_1ST_FRAME  The stream header is returned together with the first encoded frame. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_REPEAT_SEQ_HEADER  boolean Repeat the video sequence headers. Repeating these headers makes random access to the video stream easier. Applicable to the MPEG1, 2 and 4 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_DECODER_MPEG4_DEBLOCK_FILTER  boolean Enabled the deblocking post processing filter for MPEG4 decoder. Applicable to the MPEG4 decoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG4_VOP_TIME_RES  integer vop_time_increment_resolution value for MPEG4. Applicable to the MPEG4 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG4_VOP_TIME_INC  integer vop_time_increment value for MPEG4. Applicable to the MPEG4 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_SEI_FRAME_PACKING  boolean Enable generation of frame packing supplemental enhancement information in the encoded bitstream. The frame packing SEI message contains the arrangement of L and R planes for 3D viewing. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_SEI_FP_CURRENT_FRAME_0  boolean Sets current frame as frame0 in frame packing SEI. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_SEI_FP_ARRANGEMENT_TYPE  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_h264_sei_fp_arrangement_type Frame packing arrangement type for H264 SEI. Applicable to the H264 encoder. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_SEI_FP_ARRANGEMENT_TYPE_CHEKERBOARD  Pixels are alternatively from L and R. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_SEI_FP_ARRANGEMENT_TYPE_COLUMN  L and R are interlaced by column. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_SEI_FP_ARRANGEMENT_TYPE_ROW  L and R are interlaced by row. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_SEI_FP_ARRANGEMENT_TYPE_SIDE_BY_SIDE  L is on the left, R on the right. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_SEI_FP_ARRANGEMENT_TYPE_TOP_BOTTOM  L is on top, R on bottom. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_SEI_FP_ARRANGEMENT_TYPE_TEMPORAL  One view per frame. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO  boolean Enables flexible macroblock ordering in the encoded bitstream. It is a technique used for restructuring the ordering of macroblocks in pictures. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_MAP_TYPE  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_h264_fmo_map_type When using FMO, the map type divides the image in different scan patterns of macroblocks. Applicable to the H264 encoder. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_MAP_TYPE_INTERLEAVED_SLICES  Slices are interleaved one after other with macroblocks in run length order. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_MAP_TYPE_SCATTERED_SLICES  Scatters the macroblocks based on a mathematical function known to both encoder and decoder. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_MAP_TYPE_FOREGROUND_WITH_LEFT_OVER  Macroblocks arranged in rectangular areas or regions of interest. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_MAP_TYPE_BOX_OUT  Slice groups grow in a cyclic way from centre to outwards. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_MAP_TYPE_RASTER_SCAN  Slice groups grow in raster scan pattern from left to right. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_MAP_TYPE_WIPE_SCAN  Slice groups grow in wipe scan pattern from top to bottom. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_MAP_TYPE_EXPLICIT  User defined map type. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_SLICE_GROUP  integer Number of slice groups in FMO. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_CHANGE_DIRECTION  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_h264_fmo_change_dir Specifies a direction of the slice group change for raster and wipe maps. Applicable to the H264 encoder. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_CHANGE_DIR_RIGHT  Raster scan or wipe right. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_CHANGE_DIR_LEFT  Reverse raster scan or wipe left. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_CHANGE_RATE  integer Specifies the size of the first slice group for raster and wipe map. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_FMO_RUN_LENGTH  integer Specifies the number of consecutive macroblocks for the interleaved map. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_ASO  boolean Enables arbitrary slice ordering in encoded bitstream. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_ASO_SLICE_ORDER  integer Specifies the slice order in ASO. Applicable to the H264 encoder. The supplied 32-bit integer is interpreted as follows (bit 0 = least significant bit): Bit 0:15 Slice ID Bit 16:32 Slice position or order V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIERARCHICAL_CODING  boolean Enables H264 hierarchical coding. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIERARCHICAL_CODING_TYPE  enum v4l2_mpeg_video_h264_hierarchical_coding_type Specifies the hierarchical coding type. Applicable to the H264 encoder. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIERARCHICAL_CODING_B  Hierarchical B coding. V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIERARCHICAL_CODING_P  Hierarchical P coding. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIERARCHICAL_CODING_LAYER  integer Specifies the number of hierarchical coding layers. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIERARCHICAL_CODING_LAYER_QP  integer Specifies a user defined QP for each layer. Applicable to the H264 encoder. The supplied 32-bit integer is interpreted as follows (bit 0 = least significant bit): Bit 0:15 QP value Bit 16:32 Layer number

The following MPEG class controls deal with MPEG decoding and encoding settings that are specific to the Multi Format Codec 5.1 device present in the S5P family of SoCs by Samsung. ID Type Description V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_DECODER_H264_DISPLAY_DELAY_ENABLE  integer If the display delay is enabled then the decoder has to return a CAPTURE buffer after processing a certain number of OUTPUT buffers. If this number is low, then it may result in buffers not being dequeued in display order. In addition hardware may still use those buffers as reference, thus application should not write to those buffers. This feature can be used for example for generating thumbnails of videos. Applicable to the H264 decoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_DECODER_H264_DISPLAY_DELAY  integer Display delay value for H264 decoder. The decoder is forced to return a decoded frame after the set 'display delay' number of frames. If this number is low it may result in frames returned out of dispaly order, in addition the hardware may still be using the returned buffer as a reference picture for subsequent frames. V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_H264_NUM_REF_PIC_FOR_P  integer The number of reference pictures used for encoding a P picture. Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_PADDING  boolean Padding enable in the encoder - use a color instead of repeating border pixels. Applicable to encoders. V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_PADDING_YUV  integer Padding color in the encoder. Applicable to encoders. The supplied 32-bit integer is interpreted as follows (bit 0 = least significant bit): Bit 0:7 V chrominance information Bit 8:15 U chrominance information Bit 16:23 Y luminance information Bit 24:31 Must be zero. V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_RC_REACTION_COEFF  integer Reaction coefficient for MFC rate control. Applicable to encoders. Note 1: Valid only when the frame level RC is enabled. Note 2: For tight CBR, this field must be small (ex. 2 ~ 10). For VBR, this field must be large (ex. 100 ~ 1000). Note 3: It is not recommended to use the greater number than FRAME_RATE * (10^9 / BIT_RATE). V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_H264_ADAPTIVE_RC_DARK  boolean Adaptive rate control for dark region. Valid only when H.264 and macroblock level RC is enabled (V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MB_RC_ENABLE). Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_H264_ADAPTIVE_RC_SMOOTH  boolean Adaptive rate control for smooth region. Valid only when H.264 and macroblock level RC is enabled (V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MB_RC_ENABLE). Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_H264_ADAPTIVE_RC_STATIC  boolean Adaptive rate control for static region. Valid only when H.264 and macroblock level RC is enabled (V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MB_RC_ENABLE). Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_H264_ADAPTIVE_RC_ACTIVITY  boolean Adaptive rate control for activity region. Valid only when H.264 and macroblock level RC is enabled (V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MB_RC_ENABLE). Applicable to the H264 encoder. V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_FRAME_SKIP_MODE  enum v4l2_mpeg_mfc51_video_frame_skip_mode Indicates in what conditions the encoder should skip frames. If encoding a frame would cause the encoded stream to be larger then a chosen data limit then the frame will be skipped. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_MFC51_FRAME_SKIP_MODE_DISABLED  Frame skip mode is disabled. V4L2_MPEG_MFC51_FRAME_SKIP_MODE_LEVEL_LIMIT  Frame skip mode enabled and buffer limit is set by the chosen level and is defined by the standard. V4L2_MPEG_MFC51_FRAME_SKIP_MODE_BUF_LIMIT  Frame skip mode enabled and buffer limit is set by the VBV (MPEG1/2/4) or CPB (H264) buffer size control. V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_RC_FIXED_TARGET_BIT  integer Enable rate-control with fixed target bit. If this setting is enabled, then the rate control logic of the encoder will calculate the average bitrate for a GOP and keep it below or equal the set bitrate target. Otherwise the rate control logic calculates the overall average bitrate for the stream and keeps it below or equal to the set bitrate. In the first case the average bitrate for the whole stream will be smaller then the set bitrate. This is caused because the average is calculated for smaller number of frames, on the other hand enabling this setting will ensure that the stream will meet tight bandwidth contraints. Applicable to encoders. V4L2_CID_MPEG_MFC51_VIDEO_FORCE_FRAME_TYPE  enum v4l2_mpeg_mfc51_video_force_frame_type Force a frame type for the next queued buffer. Applicable to encoders. Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_MFC51_FORCE_FRAME_TYPE_DISABLED  Forcing a specific frame type disabled. V4L2_MPEG_MFC51_FORCE_FRAME_TYPE_I_FRAME  Force an I-frame. V4L2_MPEG_MFC51_FORCE_FRAME_TYPE_NOT_CODED  Force a non-coded frame.

The following MPEG class controls deal with MPEG encoding settings that are specific to the Conexant CX23415 and CX23416 MPEG encoding chips. ID Type Description V4L2_CID_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_SPATIAL_FILTER_MODE  enum v4l2_mpeg_cx2341x_video_spatial_filter_mode Sets the Spatial Filter mode (default MANUAL). Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_SPATIAL_FILTER_MODE_MANUAL  Choose the filter manually V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_SPATIAL_FILTER_MODE_AUTO  Choose the filter automatically V4L2_CID_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_SPATIAL_FILTER  integer (0-15) The setting for the Spatial Filter. 0 = off, 15 = maximum. (Default is 0.) V4L2_CID_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_LUMA_SPATIAL_FILTER_TYPE  enum v4l2_mpeg_cx2341x_video_luma_spatial_filter_type Select the algorithm to use for the Luma Spatial Filter (default 1D_HOR). Possible values: V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_LUMA_SPATIAL_FILTER_TYPE_OFF  No filter V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_LUMA_SPATIAL_FILTER_TYPE_1D_HOR  One-dimensional horizontal V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_LUMA_SPATIAL_FILTER_TYPE_1D_VERT  One-dimensional vertical V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_LUMA_SPATIAL_FILTER_TYPE_2D_HV_SEPARABLE  Two-dimensional separable V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_LUMA_SPATIAL_FILTER_TYPE_2D_SYM_NON_SEPARABLE  Two-dimensional symmetrical non-separable V4L2_CID_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_CHROMA_SPATIAL_FILTER_TYPE  enum v4l2_mpeg_cx2341x_video_chroma_spatial_filter_type Select the algorithm for the Chroma Spatial Filter (default 1D_HOR). Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_CHROMA_SPATIAL_FILTER_TYPE_OFF  No filter V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_CHROMA_SPATIAL_FILTER_TYPE_1D_HOR  One-dimensional horizontal V4L2_CID_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_TEMPORAL_FILTER_MODE  enum v4l2_mpeg_cx2341x_video_temporal_filter_mode Sets the Temporal Filter mode (default MANUAL). Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_TEMPORAL_FILTER_MODE_MANUAL  Choose the filter manually V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_TEMPORAL_FILTER_MODE_AUTO  Choose the filter automatically V4L2_CID_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_TEMPORAL_FILTER  integer (0-31) The setting for the Temporal Filter. 0 = off, 31 = maximum. (Default is 8 for full-scale capturing and 0 for scaled capturing.) V4L2_CID_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_MEDIAN_FILTER_TYPE  enum v4l2_mpeg_cx2341x_video_median_filter_type Median Filter Type (default OFF). Possible values are: V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_MEDIAN_FILTER_TYPE_OFF  No filter V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_MEDIAN_FILTER_TYPE_HOR  Horizontal filter V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_MEDIAN_FILTER_TYPE_VERT  Vertical filter V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_MEDIAN_FILTER_TYPE_HOR_VERT  Horizontal and vertical filter V4L2_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_MEDIAN_FILTER_TYPE_DIAG  Diagonal filter V4L2_CID_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_LUMA_MEDIAN_FILTER_BOTTOM  integer (0-255) Threshold above which the luminance median filter is enabled (default 0) V4L2_CID_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_LUMA_MEDIAN_FILTER_TOP  integer (0-255) Threshold below which the luminance median filter is enabled (default 255) V4L2_CID_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_CHROMA_MEDIAN_FILTER_BOTTOM  integer (0-255) Threshold above which the chroma median filter is enabled (default 0) V4L2_CID_MPEG_CX2341X_VIDEO_CHROMA_MEDIAN_FILTER_TOP  integer (0-255) Threshold below which the chroma median filter is enabled (default 255) V4L2_CID_MPEG_CX2341X_STREAM_INSERT_NAV_PACKETS  boolean The CX2341X MPEG encoder can insert one empty MPEG-2 PES packet into the stream between every four video frames. The packet size is 2048 bytes, including the packet_start_code_prefix and stream_id fields. The stream_id is 0xBF (private stream 2). The payload consists of 0x00 bytes, to be filled in by the application. 0 = do not insert, 1 = insert packets.

The VPX controls include controls for encoding parameters of VPx video codec. ID Type Description V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_NUM_PARTITIONS enum v4l2_vp8_num_partitions The number of token partitions to use in VP8 encoder. Possible values are: V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_1_PARTITION 1 coefficient partition V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_2_PARTITIONS 2 coefficient partitions V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_4_PARTITIONS 4 coefficient partitions V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_8_PARTITIONS 8 coefficient partitions V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_IMD_DISABLE_4X4 boolean Setting this prevents intra 4x4 mode in the intra mode decision. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_NUM_REF_FRAMES enum v4l2_vp8_num_ref_frames The number of reference pictures for encoding P frames. Possible values are: V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_1_REF_FRAME Last encoded frame will be searched V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_2_REF_FRAME Two frames will be searched among the last encoded frame, the golden frame and the alternate reference (altref) frame. The encoder implementation will decide which two are chosen. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_3_REF_FRAME The last encoded frame, the golden frame and the altref frame will be searched. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_FILTER_LEVEL integer Indicates the loop filter level. The adjustment of the loop filter level is done via a delta value against a baseline loop filter value. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_FILTER_SHARPNESS integer This parameter affects the loop filter. Anything above zero weakens the deblocking effect on the loop filter. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_GOLDEN_FRAME_REF_PERIOD integer Sets the refresh period for the golden frame. The period is defined in number of frames. For a value of 'n', every nth frame starting from the first key frame will be taken as a golden frame. For eg. for encoding sequence of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 where the golden frame refresh period is set as 4, the frames 0, 4, 8 etc will be taken as the golden frames as frame 0 is always a key frame. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_GOLDEN_FRAME_SEL enum v4l2_vp8_golden_frame_sel Selects the golden frame for encoding. Possible values are: V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_GOLDEN_FRAME_USE_PREV Use the (n-2)th frame as a golden frame, current frame index being 'n'. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_GOLDEN_FRAME_USE_REF_PERIOD Use the previous specific frame indicated by V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_GOLDEN_FRAME_REF_PERIOD as a golden frame. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_MIN_QP integer Minimum quantization parameter for VP8. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_MAX_QP integer Maximum quantization parameter for VP8. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_I_FRAME_QP  integer Quantization parameter for an I frame for VP8. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_P_FRAME_QP  integer Quantization parameter for a P frame for VP8. V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_VPX_PROFILE  integer Select the desired profile for VPx encoder. Acceptable values are 0, 1, 2 and 3 corresponding to encoder profiles 0, 1, 2 and 3.

The Camera class includes controls for mechanical (or equivalent digital) features of a device such as controllable lenses or sensors. ID Type Description V4L2_CID_CAMERA_CLASS  class The Camera class descriptor. Calling &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL; for this control will return a description of this control class. V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE_AUTO  enum v4l2_exposure_auto_type Enables automatic adjustments of the exposure time and/or iris aperture. The effect of manual changes of the exposure time or iris aperture while these features are enabled is undefined, drivers should ignore such requests. Possible values are: V4L2_EXPOSURE_AUTO  Automatic exposure time, automatic iris aperture. V4L2_EXPOSURE_MANUAL  Manual exposure time, manual iris. V4L2_EXPOSURE_SHUTTER_PRIORITY  Manual exposure time, auto iris. V4L2_EXPOSURE_APERTURE_PRIORITY  Auto exposure time, manual iris. V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE_ABSOLUTE  integer Determines the exposure time of the camera sensor. The exposure time is limited by the frame interval. Drivers should interpret the values as 100 µs units, where the value 1 stands for 1/10000th of a second, 10000 for 1 second and 100000 for 10 seconds. V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE_AUTO_PRIORITY  boolean When V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE_AUTO is set to AUTO or APERTURE_PRIORITY, this control determines if the device may dynamically vary the frame rate. By default this feature is disabled (0) and the frame rate must remain constant. V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE_BIAS  integer menu Determines the automatic exposure compensation, it is effective only when V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE_AUTO control is set to AUTO, SHUTTER_PRIORITY or APERTURE_PRIORITY. It is expressed in terms of EV, drivers should interpret the values as 0.001 EV units, where the value 1000 stands for +1 EV. Increasing the exposure compensation value is equivalent to decreasing the exposure value (EV) and will increase the amount of light at the image sensor. The camera performs the exposure compensation by adjusting absolute exposure time and/or aperture. V4L2_CID_EXPOSURE_METERING  enum v4l2_exposure_metering Determines how the camera measures the amount of light available for the frame exposure. Possible values are: V4L2_EXPOSURE_METERING_AVERAGE  Use the light information coming from the entire frame and average giving no weighting to any particular portion of the metered area. V4L2_EXPOSURE_METERING_CENTER_WEIGHTED  Average the light information coming from the entire frame giving priority to the center of the metered area. V4L2_EXPOSURE_METERING_SPOT  Measure only very small area at the center of the frame. V4L2_EXPOSURE_METERING_MATRIX  A multi-zone metering. The light intensity is measured in several points of the frame and the the results are combined. The algorithm of the zones selection and their significance in calculating the final value is device dependent. V4L2_CID_PAN_RELATIVE  integer This control turns the camera horizontally by the specified amount. The unit is undefined. A positive value moves the camera to the right (clockwise when viewed from above), a negative value to the left. A value of zero does not cause motion. This is a write-only control. V4L2_CID_TILT_RELATIVE  integer This control turns the camera vertically by the specified amount. The unit is undefined. A positive value moves the camera up, a negative value down. A value of zero does not cause motion. This is a write-only control. V4L2_CID_PAN_RESET  button When this control is set, the camera moves horizontally to the default position. V4L2_CID_TILT_RESET  button When this control is set, the camera moves vertically to the default position. V4L2_CID_PAN_ABSOLUTE  integer This control turns the camera horizontally to the specified position. Positive values move the camera to the right (clockwise when viewed from above), negative values to the left. Drivers should interpret the values as arc seconds, with valid values between -180 * 3600 and +180 * 3600 inclusive. V4L2_CID_TILT_ABSOLUTE  integer This control turns the camera vertically to the specified position. Positive values move the camera up, negative values down. Drivers should interpret the values as arc seconds, with valid values between -180 * 3600 and +180 * 3600 inclusive. V4L2_CID_FOCUS_ABSOLUTE  integer This control sets the focal point of the camera to the specified position. The unit is undefined. Positive values set the focus closer to the camera, negative values towards infinity. V4L2_CID_FOCUS_RELATIVE  integer This control moves the focal point of the camera by the specified amount. The unit is undefined. Positive values move the focus closer to the camera, negative values towards infinity. This is a write-only control. V4L2_CID_FOCUS_AUTO  boolean Enables continuous automatic focus adjustments. The effect of manual focus adjustments while this feature is enabled is undefined, drivers should ignore such requests. V4L2_CID_AUTO_FOCUS_START  button Starts single auto focus process. The effect of setting this control when V4L2_CID_FOCUS_AUTO is set to TRUE (1) is undefined, drivers should ignore such requests. V4L2_CID_AUTO_FOCUS_STOP  button Aborts automatic focusing started with V4L2_CID_AUTO_FOCUS_START control. It is effective only when the continuous autofocus is disabled, that is when V4L2_CID_FOCUS_AUTO control is set to FALSE (0). V4L2_CID_AUTO_FOCUS_STATUS  bitmask The automatic focus status. This is a read-only control. V4L2_AUTO_FOCUS_STATUS_IDLE  Automatic focus is not active. V4L2_AUTO_FOCUS_STATUS_BUSY  Automatic focusing is in progress. V4L2_AUTO_FOCUS_STATUS_REACHED  Focus has been reached. V4L2_AUTO_FOCUS_STATUS_FAILED  Automatic focus has failed, the driver will not transition from this state until another action is performed by an application. Setting V4L2_LOCK_FOCUS lock bit of the V4L2_CID_3A_LOCK control may stop updates of the V4L2_CID_AUTO_FOCUS_STATUS control value. V4L2_CID_AUTO_FOCUS_RANGE  enum v4l2_auto_focus_range Determines auto focus distance range for which lens may be adjusted. V4L2_AUTO_FOCUS_RANGE_AUTO  The camera automatically selects the focus range. V4L2_AUTO_FOCUS_RANGE_NORMAL  Normal distance range, limited for best automatic focus performance. V4L2_AUTO_FOCUS_RANGE_MACRO  Macro (close-up) auto focus. The camera will use its minimum possible distance for auto focus. V4L2_AUTO_FOCUS_RANGE_INFINITY  The lens is set to focus on an object at infinite distance. V4L2_CID_ZOOM_ABSOLUTE  integer Specify the objective lens focal length as an absolute value. The zoom unit is driver-specific and its value should be a positive integer. V4L2_CID_ZOOM_RELATIVE  integer Specify the objective lens focal length relatively to the current value. Positive values move the zoom lens group towards the telephoto direction, negative values towards the wide-angle direction. The zoom unit is driver-specific. This is a write-only control. V4L2_CID_ZOOM_CONTINUOUS  integer Move the objective lens group at the specified speed until it reaches physical device limits or until an explicit request to stop the movement. A positive value moves the zoom lens group towards the telephoto direction. A value of zero stops the zoom lens group movement. A negative value moves the zoom lens group towards the wide-angle direction. The zoom speed unit is driver-specific. V4L2_CID_IRIS_ABSOLUTE  integer This control sets the camera's aperture to the specified value. The unit is undefined. Larger values open the iris wider, smaller values close it. V4L2_CID_IRIS_RELATIVE  integer This control modifies the camera's aperture by the specified amount. The unit is undefined. Positive values open the iris one step further, negative values close it one step further. This is a write-only control. V4L2_CID_PRIVACY  boolean Prevent video from being acquired by the camera. When this control is set to TRUE (1), no image can be captured by the camera. Common means to enforce privacy are mechanical obturation of the sensor and firmware image processing, but the device is not restricted to these methods. Devices that implement the privacy control must support read access and may support write access. V4L2_CID_BAND_STOP_FILTER  integer Switch the band-stop filter of a camera sensor on or off, or specify its strength. Such band-stop filters can be used, for example, to filter out the fluorescent light component. V4L2_CID_AUTO_N_PRESET_WHITE_BALANCE  enum v4l2_auto_n_preset_white_balance Sets white balance to automatic, manual or a preset. The presets determine color temperature of the light as a hint to the camera for white balance adjustments resulting in most accurate color representation. The following white balance presets are listed in order of increasing color temperature. V4L2_WHITE_BALANCE_MANUAL  Manual white balance. V4L2_WHITE_BALANCE_AUTO  Automatic white balance adjustments. V4L2_WHITE_BALANCE_INCANDESCENT  White balance setting for incandescent (tungsten) lighting. It generally cools down the colors and corresponds approximately to 2500...3500 K color temperature range. V4L2_WHITE_BALANCE_FLUORESCENT  White balance preset for fluorescent lighting. It corresponds approximately to 4000...5000 K color temperature. V4L2_WHITE_BALANCE_FLUORESCENT_H  With this setting the camera will compensate for fluorescent H lighting. V4L2_WHITE_BALANCE_HORIZON  White balance setting for horizon daylight. It corresponds approximately to 5000 K color temperature. V4L2_WHITE_BALANCE_DAYLIGHT  White balance preset for daylight (with clear sky). It corresponds approximately to 5000...6500 K color temperature. V4L2_WHITE_BALANCE_FLASH  With this setting the camera will compensate for the flash light. It slightly warms up the colors and corresponds roughly to 5000...5500 K color temperature. V4L2_WHITE_BALANCE_CLOUDY  White balance preset for moderately overcast sky. This option corresponds approximately to 6500...8000 K color temperature range. V4L2_WHITE_BALANCE_SHADE  White balance preset for shade or heavily overcast sky. It corresponds approximately to 9000...10000 K color temperature. V4L2_CID_WIDE_DYNAMIC_RANGE boolean Enables or disables the camera's wide dynamic range feature. This feature allows to obtain clear images in situations where intensity of the illumination varies significantly throughout the scene, i.e. there are simultaneously very dark and very bright areas. It is most commonly realized in cameras by combining two subsequent frames with different exposure times. This control may be changed to a menu control in the future, if more options are required. V4L2_CID_IMAGE_STABILIZATION boolean Enables or disables image stabilization. V4L2_CID_ISO_SENSITIVITY  integer menu Determines ISO equivalent of an image sensor indicating the sensor's sensitivity to light. The numbers are expressed in arithmetic scale, as per standard, where doubling the sensor sensitivity is represented by doubling the numerical ISO value. Applications should interpret the values as standard ISO values multiplied by 1000, e.g. control value 800 stands for ISO 0.8. Drivers will usually support only a subset of standard ISO values. The effect of setting this control while the V4L2_CID_ISO_SENSITIVITY_AUTO control is set to a value other than V4L2_CID_ISO_SENSITIVITY_MANUAL is undefined, drivers should ignore such requests. V4L2_CID_ISO_SENSITIVITY_AUTO  enum v4l2_iso_sensitivity_type Enables or disables automatic ISO sensitivity adjustments. V4L2_CID_ISO_SENSITIVITY_MANUAL  Manual ISO sensitivity. V4L2_CID_ISO_SENSITIVITY_AUTO  Automatic ISO sensitivity adjustments. V4L2_CID_SCENE_MODE  enum v4l2_scene_mode This control allows to select scene programs as the camera automatic modes optimized for common shooting scenes. Within these modes the camera determines best exposure, aperture, focusing, light metering, white balance and equivalent sensitivity. The controls of those parameters are influenced by the scene mode control. An exact behavior in each mode is subject to the camera specification. When the scene mode feature is not used, this control should be set to V4L2_SCENE_MODE_NONE to make sure the other possibly related controls are accessible. The following scene programs are defined: V4L2_SCENE_MODE_NONE  The scene mode feature is disabled. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_BACKLIGHT  Backlight. Compensates for dark shadows when light is coming from behind a subject, also by automatically turning on the flash. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_BEACH_SNOW  Beach and snow. This mode compensates for all-white or bright scenes, which tend to look gray and low contrast, when camera's automatic exposure is based on an average scene brightness. To compensate, this mode automatically slightly overexposes the frames. The white balance may also be adjusted to compensate for the fact that reflected snow looks bluish rather than white. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_CANDLELIGHT  Candle light. The camera generally raises the ISO sensitivity and lowers the shutter speed. This mode compensates for relatively close subject in the scene. The flash is disabled in order to preserve the ambiance of the light. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_DAWN_DUSK  Dawn and dusk. Preserves the colors seen in low natural light before dusk and after down. The camera may turn off the flash, and automatically focus at infinity. It will usually boost saturation and lower the shutter speed. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_FALL_COLORS  Fall colors. Increases saturation and adjusts white balance for color enhancement. Pictures of autumn leaves get saturated reds and yellows. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_FIREWORKS  Fireworks. Long exposure times are used to capture the expanding burst of light from a firework. The camera may invoke image stabilization. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_LANDSCAPE  Landscape. The camera may choose a small aperture to provide deep depth of field and long exposure duration to help capture detail in dim light conditions. The focus is fixed at infinity. Suitable for distant and wide scenery. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_NIGHT  Night, also known as Night Landscape. Designed for low light conditions, it preserves detail in the dark areas without blowing out bright objects. The camera generally sets itself to a medium-to-high ISO sensitivity, with a relatively long exposure time, and turns flash off. As such, there will be increased image noise and the possibility of blurred image. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_PARTY_INDOOR  Party and indoor. Designed to capture indoor scenes that are lit by indoor background lighting as well as the flash. The camera usually increases ISO sensitivity, and adjusts exposure for the low light conditions. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_PORTRAIT  Portrait. The camera adjusts the aperture so that the depth of field is reduced, which helps to isolate the subject against a smooth background. Most cameras recognize the presence of faces in the scene and focus on them. The color hue is adjusted to enhance skin tones. The intensity of the flash is often reduced. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_SPORTS  Sports. Significantly increases ISO and uses a fast shutter speed to freeze motion of rapidly-moving subjects. Increased image noise may be seen in this mode. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_SUNSET  Sunset. Preserves deep hues seen in sunsets and sunrises. It bumps up the saturation. V4L2_SCENE_MODE_TEXT  Text. It applies extra contrast and sharpness, it is typically a black-and-white mode optimized for readability. Automatic focus may be switched to close-up mode and this setting may also involve some lens-distortion correction. V4L2_CID_3A_LOCK bitmask This control locks or unlocks the automatic focus, exposure and white balance. The automatic adjustments can be paused independently by setting the corresponding lock bit to 1. The camera then retains the settings until the lock bit is cleared. The following lock bits are defined: V4L2_LOCK_EXPOSURE Automatic exposure adjustments lock. V4L2_LOCK_WHITE_BALANCE Automatic white balance adjustments lock. V4L2_LOCK_FOCUS Automatic focus lock. When a given algorithm is not enabled, drivers should ignore requests to lock it and should return no error. An example might be an application setting bit V4L2_LOCK_WHITE_BALANCE when the V4L2_CID_AUTO_WHITE_BALANCE control is set to FALSE. The value of this control may be changed by exposure, white balance or focus controls.

The FM Transmitter (FM_TX) class includes controls for common features of FM transmissions capable devices. Currently this class includes parameters for audio compression, pilot tone generation, audio deviation limiter, RDS transmission and tuning power features. ID Type Description V4L2_CID_FM_TX_CLASS  class The FM_TX class descriptor. Calling &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL; for this control will return a description of this control class. V4L2_CID_RDS_TX_DEVIATION  integer Configures RDS signal frequency deviation level in Hz. The range and step are driver-specific. V4L2_CID_RDS_TX_PI  integer Sets the RDS Programme Identification field for transmission. V4L2_CID_RDS_TX_PTY  integer Sets the RDS Programme Type field for transmission. This encodes up to 31 pre-defined programme types. V4L2_CID_RDS_TX_PS_NAME  string Sets the Programme Service name (PS_NAME) for transmission. It is intended for static display on a receiver. It is the primary aid to listeners in programme service identification and selection. In Annex E of , the RDS specification, there is a full description of the correct character encoding for Programme Service name strings. Also from RDS specification, PS is usually a single eight character text. However, it is also possible to find receivers which can scroll strings sized as 8 x N characters. So, this control must be configured with steps of 8 characters. The result is it must always contain a string with size multiple of 8. V4L2_CID_RDS_TX_RADIO_TEXT  string Sets the Radio Text info for transmission. It is a textual description of what is being broadcasted. RDS Radio Text can be applied when broadcaster wishes to transmit longer PS names, programme-related information or any other text. In these cases, RadioText should be used in addition to V4L2_CID_RDS_TX_PS_NAME. The encoding for Radio Text strings is also fully described in Annex E of . The length of Radio Text strings depends on which RDS Block is being used to transmit it, either 32 (2A block) or 64 (2B block). However, it is also possible to find receivers which can scroll strings sized as 32 x N or 64 x N characters. So, this control must be configured with steps of 32 or 64 characters. The result is it must always contain a string with size multiple of 32 or 64. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_LIMITER_ENABLED  boolean Enables or disables the audio deviation limiter feature. The limiter is useful when trying to maximize the audio volume, minimize receiver-generated distortion and prevent overmodulation. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_LIMITER_RELEASE_TIME  integer Sets the audio deviation limiter feature release time. Unit is in useconds. Step and range are driver-specific. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_LIMITER_DEVIATION  integer Configures audio frequency deviation level in Hz. The range and step are driver-specific. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_COMPRESSION_ENABLED  boolean Enables or disables the audio compression feature. This feature amplifies signals below the threshold by a fixed gain and compresses audio signals above the threshold by the ratio of Threshold/(Gain + Threshold). V4L2_CID_AUDIO_COMPRESSION_GAIN  integer Sets the gain for audio compression feature. It is a dB value. The range and step are driver-specific. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_COMPRESSION_THRESHOLD  integer Sets the threshold level for audio compression freature. It is a dB value. The range and step are driver-specific. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_COMPRESSION_ATTACK_TIME  integer Sets the attack time for audio compression feature. It is a useconds value. The range and step are driver-specific. V4L2_CID_AUDIO_COMPRESSION_RELEASE_TIME  integer Sets the release time for audio compression feature. It is a useconds value. The range and step are driver-specific. V4L2_CID_PILOT_TONE_ENABLED  boolean Enables or disables the pilot tone generation feature. V4L2_CID_PILOT_TONE_DEVIATION  integer Configures pilot tone frequency deviation level. Unit is in Hz. The range and step are driver-specific. V4L2_CID_PILOT_TONE_FREQUENCY  integer Configures pilot tone frequency value. Unit is in Hz. The range and step are driver-specific. V4L2_CID_TUNE_PREEMPHASIS  enum v4l2_preemphasis Configures the pre-emphasis value for broadcasting. A pre-emphasis filter is applied to the broadcast to accentuate the high audio frequencies. Depending on the region, a time constant of either 50 or 75 useconds is used. The enum v4l2_preemphasis defines possible values for pre-emphasis. Here they are: V4L2_PREEMPHASIS_DISABLED  No pre-emphasis is applied. V4L2_PREEMPHASIS_50_uS  A pre-emphasis of 50 uS is used. V4L2_PREEMPHASIS_75_uS  A pre-emphasis of 75 uS is used. V4L2_CID_TUNE_POWER_LEVEL  integer Sets the output power level for signal transmission. Unit is in dBuV. Range and step are driver-specific. V4L2_CID_TUNE_ANTENNA_CAPACITOR  integer This selects the value of antenna tuning capacitor manually or automatically if set to zero. Unit, range and step are driver-specific. For more details about RDS specification, refer to document, from CENELEC.

This is an experimental interface and may change in the future. The V4L2 flash controls are intended to provide generic access to flash controller devices. Flash controller devices are typically used in digital cameras. The interface can support both LED and xenon flash devices. As of writing this, there is no xenon flash driver using this interface.

Unsynchronised LED flash is controlled directly by the host as the sensor. The flash must be enabled by the host before the exposure of the image starts and disabled once it ends. The host is fully responsible for the timing of the flash. Example of such device: Nokia N900.

The synchronised LED flash is pre-programmed by the host (power and timeout) but controlled by the sensor through a strobe signal from the sensor to the flash. The sensor controls the flash duration and timing. This information typically must be made available to the sensor.

LED flash may be used as torch in conjunction with another use case involving camera or individually. ID Type Description V4L2_CID_FLASH_CLASS class The FLASH class descriptor. V4L2_CID_FLASH_LED_MODE menu Defines the mode of the flash LED, the high-power white LED attached to the flash controller. Setting this control may not be possible in presence of some faults. See V4L2_CID_FLASH_FAULT. V4L2_FLASH_LED_MODE_NONE Off. V4L2_FLASH_LED_MODE_FLASH Flash mode. V4L2_FLASH_LED_MODE_TORCH Torch mode. See V4L2_CID_FLASH_TORCH_INTENSITY. V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE_SOURCE menu Defines the source of the flash LED strobe. V4L2_FLASH_STROBE_SOURCE_SOFTWARE The flash strobe is triggered by using the V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE control. V4L2_FLASH_STROBE_SOURCE_EXTERNAL The flash strobe is triggered by an external source. Typically this is a sensor, which makes it possible to synchronises the flash strobe start to exposure start. V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE button Strobe flash. Valid when V4L2_CID_FLASH_LED_MODE is set to V4L2_FLASH_LED_MODE_FLASH and V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE_SOURCE is set to V4L2_FLASH_STROBE_SOURCE_SOFTWARE. Setting this control may not be possible in presence of some faults. See V4L2_CID_FLASH_FAULT. V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE_STOP button Stop flash strobe immediately. V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE_STATUS boolean Strobe status: whether the flash is strobing at the moment or not. This is a read-only control. V4L2_CID_FLASH_TIMEOUT integer Hardware timeout for flash. The flash strobe is stopped after this period of time has passed from the start of the strobe. V4L2_CID_FLASH_INTENSITY integer Intensity of the flash strobe when the flash LED is in flash mode (V4L2_FLASH_LED_MODE_FLASH). The unit should be milliamps (mA) if possible. V4L2_CID_FLASH_TORCH_INTENSITY integer Intensity of the flash LED in torch mode (V4L2_FLASH_LED_MODE_TORCH). The unit should be milliamps (mA) if possible. Setting this control may not be possible in presence of some faults. See V4L2_CID_FLASH_FAULT. V4L2_CID_FLASH_INDICATOR_INTENSITY integer Intensity of the indicator LED. The indicator LED may be fully independent of the flash LED. The unit should be microamps (uA) if possible. V4L2_CID_FLASH_FAULT bitmask Faults related to the flash. The faults tell about specific problems in the flash chip itself or the LEDs attached to it. Faults may prevent further use of some of the flash controls. In particular, V4L2_CID_FLASH_LED_MODE is set to V4L2_FLASH_LED_MODE_NONE if the fault affects the flash LED. Exactly which faults have such an effect is chip dependent. Reading the faults resets the control and returns the chip to a usable state if possible. V4L2_FLASH_FAULT_OVER_VOLTAGE Flash controller voltage to the flash LED has exceeded the limit specific to the flash controller. V4L2_FLASH_FAULT_TIMEOUT The flash strobe was still on when the timeout set by the user --- V4L2_CID_FLASH_TIMEOUT control --- has expired. Not all flash controllers may set this in all such conditions. V4L2_FLASH_FAULT_OVER_TEMPERATURE The flash controller has overheated. V4L2_FLASH_FAULT_SHORT_CIRCUIT The short circuit protection of the flash controller has been triggered. V4L2_FLASH_FAULT_OVER_CURRENT Current in the LED power supply has exceeded the limit specific to the flash controller. V4L2_FLASH_FAULT_INDICATOR The flash controller has detected a short or open circuit condition on the indicator LED. V4L2_CID_FLASH_CHARGE boolean Enable or disable charging of the xenon flash capacitor. V4L2_CID_FLASH_READY boolean Is the flash ready to strobe? Xenon flashes require their capacitors charged before strobing. LED flashes often require a cooldown period after strobe during which another strobe will not be possible. This is a read-only control.

The JPEG class includes controls for common features of JPEG encoders and decoders. Currently it includes features for codecs implementing progressive baseline DCT compression process with Huffman entrophy coding. ID Type Description V4L2_CID_JPEG_CLASS  class The JPEG class descriptor. Calling &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL; for this control will return a description of this control class. V4L2_CID_JPEG_CHROMA_SUBSAMPLING menu The chroma subsampling factors describe how each component of an input image is sampled, in respect to maximum sample rate in each spatial dimension. See , clause A.1.1. for more details. The V4L2_CID_JPEG_CHROMA_SUBSAMPLING control determines how Cb and Cr components are downsampled after coverting an input image from RGB to Y'CbCr color space. V4L2_JPEG_CHROMA_SUBSAMPLING_444 No chroma subsampling, each pixel has Y, Cr and Cb values. V4L2_JPEG_CHROMA_SUBSAMPLING_422 Horizontally subsample Cr, Cb components by a factor of 2. V4L2_JPEG_CHROMA_SUBSAMPLING_420 Subsample Cr, Cb components horizontally and vertically by 2. V4L2_JPEG_CHROMA_SUBSAMPLING_411 Horizontally subsample Cr, Cb components by a factor of 4. V4L2_JPEG_CHROMA_SUBSAMPLING_410 Subsample Cr, Cb components horizontally by 4 and vertically by 2. V4L2_JPEG_CHROMA_SUBSAMPLING_GRAY Use only luminance component. V4L2_CID_JPEG_RESTART_INTERVAL integer The restart interval determines an interval of inserting RSTm markers (m = 0..7). The purpose of these markers is to additionally reinitialize the encoder process, in order to process blocks of an image independently. For the lossy compression processes the restart interval unit is MCU (Minimum Coded Unit) and its value is contained in DRI (Define Restart Interval) marker. If V4L2_CID_JPEG_RESTART_INTERVAL control is set to 0, DRI and RSTm markers will not be inserted. V4L2_CID_JPEG_COMPRESSION_QUALITY integer V4L2_CID_JPEG_COMPRESSION_QUALITY control determines trade-off between image quality and size. It provides simpler method for applications to control image quality, without a need for direct reconfiguration of luminance and chrominance quantization tables. In cases where a driver uses quantization tables configured directly by an application, using interfaces defined elsewhere, V4L2_CID_JPEG_COMPRESSION_QUALITY control should be set by driver to 0. The value range of this control is driver-specific. Only positive, non-zero values are meaningful. The recommended range is 1 - 100, where larger values correspond to better image quality. V4L2_CID_JPEG_ACTIVE_MARKER bitmask Specify which JPEG markers are included in compressed stream. This control is valid only for encoders. V4L2_JPEG_ACTIVE_MARKER_APP0 Application data segment APP0. V4L2_JPEG_ACTIVE_MARKER_APP1 Application data segment APP1. V4L2_JPEG_ACTIVE_MARKER_COM Comment segment. V4L2_JPEG_ACTIVE_MARKER_DQT Quantization tables segment. V4L2_JPEG_ACTIVE_MARKER_DHT Huffman tables segment. For more details about JPEG specification, refer to , , .

This is an experimental interface and may change in the future. The Image Source control class is intended for low-level control of image source devices such as image sensors. The devices feature an analogue to digital converter and a bus transmitter to transmit the image data out of the device. ID Type Description V4L2_CID_IMAGE_SOURCE_CLASS class The IMAGE_SOURCE class descriptor. V4L2_CID_VBLANK integer Vertical blanking. The idle period after every frame during which no image data is produced. The unit of vertical blanking is a line. Every line has length of the image width plus horizontal blanking at the pixel rate defined by V4L2_CID_PIXEL_RATE control in the same sub-device. V4L2_CID_HBLANK integer Horizontal blanking. The idle period after every line of image data during which no image data is produced. The unit of horizontal blanking is pixels. V4L2_CID_ANALOGUE_GAIN integer Analogue gain is gain affecting all colour components in the pixel matrix. The gain operation is performed in the analogue domain before A/D conversion.

This is an experimental interface and may change in the future. The Image Source control class is intended for low-level control of image processing functions. Unlike V4L2_CID_IMAGE_SOURCE_CLASS, the controls in this class affect processing the image, and do not control capturing of it. ID Type Description V4L2_CID_IMAGE_PROC_CLASS class The IMAGE_PROC class descriptor. V4L2_CID_LINK_FREQ integer menu Data bus frequency. Together with the media bus pixel code, bus type (clock cycles per sample), the data bus frequency defines the pixel rate (V4L2_CID_PIXEL_RATE) in the pixel array (or possibly elsewhere, if the device is not an image sensor). The frame rate can be calculated from the pixel clock, image width and height and horizontal and vertical blanking. While the pixel rate control may be defined elsewhere than in the subdev containing the pixel array, the frame rate cannot be obtained from that information. This is because only on the pixel array it can be assumed that the vertical and horizontal blanking information is exact: no other blanking is allowed in the pixel array. The selection of frame rate is performed by selecting the desired horizontal and vertical blanking. The unit of this control is Hz. V4L2_CID_PIXEL_RATE 64-bit integer Pixel rate in the source pads of the subdev. This control is read-only and its unit is pixels / second. V4L2_CID_TEST_PATTERN menu Some capture/display/sensor devices have the capability to generate test pattern images. These hardware specific test patterns can be used to test if a device is working properly.

This is an experimental interface and may change in the future. The Digital Video control class is intended to control receivers and transmitters for VGA, DVI (Digital Visual Interface), HDMI () and DisplayPort (). These controls are generally expected to be private to the receiver or transmitter subdevice that implements them, so they are only exposed on the /dev/v4l-subdev* device node. Note that these devices can have multiple input or output pads which are hooked up to e.g. HDMI connectors. Even though the subdevice will receive or transmit video from/to only one of those pads, the other pads can still be active when it comes to EDID (Extended Display Identification Data, ) and HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection System, ) processing, allowing the device to do the fairly slow EDID/HDCP handling in advance. This allows for quick switching between connectors. These pads appear in several of the controls in this section as bitmasks, one bit for each pad. Bit 0 corresponds to pad 0, bit 1 to pad 1, etc. The maximum value of the control is the set of valid pads. ID Type Description V4L2_CID_DV_CLASS class The Digital Video class descriptor. V4L2_CID_DV_TX_HOTPLUG bitmask Many connectors have a hotplug pin which is high if EDID information is available from the source. This control shows the state of the hotplug pin as seen by the transmitter. Each bit corresponds to an output pad on the transmitter. If an output pad does not have an associated hotplug pin, then the bit for that pad will be 0. This read-only control is applicable to DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort connectors. V4L2_CID_DV_TX_RXSENSE bitmask Rx Sense is the detection of pull-ups on the TMDS clock lines. This normally means that the sink has left/entered standby (i.e. the transmitter can sense that the receiver is ready to receive video). Each bit corresponds to an output pad on the transmitter. If an output pad does not have an associated Rx Sense, then the bit for that pad will be 0. This read-only control is applicable to DVI-D and HDMI devices. V4L2_CID_DV_TX_EDID_PRESENT bitmask When the transmitter sees the hotplug signal from the receiver it will attempt to read the EDID. If set, then the transmitter has read at least the first block (= 128 bytes). Each bit corresponds to an output pad on the transmitter. If an output pad does not support EDIDs, then the bit for that pad will be 0. This read-only control is applicable to VGA, DVI-A/D, HDMI and DisplayPort connectors. V4L2_CID_DV_TX_MODE enum v4l2_dv_tx_mode HDMI transmitters can transmit in DVI-D mode (just video) or in HDMI mode (video + audio + auxiliary data). This control selects which mode to use: V4L2_DV_TX_MODE_DVI_D or V4L2_DV_TX_MODE_HDMI. This control is applicable to HDMI connectors. V4L2_CID_DV_TX_RGB_RANGE enum v4l2_dv_rgb_range Select the quantization range for RGB output. V4L2_DV_RANGE_AUTO follows the RGB quantization range specified in the standard for the video interface (ie. for HDMI). V4L2_DV_RANGE_LIMITED and V4L2_DV_RANGE_FULL override the standard to be compatible with sinks that have not implemented the standard correctly (unfortunately quite common for HDMI and DVI-D). Full range allows all possible values to be used whereas limited range sets the range to (16 << (N-8)) - (235 << (N-8)) where N is the number of bits per component. This control is applicable to VGA, DVI-A/D, HDMI and DisplayPort connectors. V4L2_CID_DV_RX_POWER_PRESENT bitmask Detects whether the receiver receives power from the source (e.g. HDMI carries 5V on one of the pins). This is often used to power an eeprom which contains EDID information, such that the source can read the EDID even if the sink is in standby/power off. Each bit corresponds to an input pad on the transmitter. If an input pad cannot detect whether power is present, then the bit for that pad will be 0. This read-only control is applicable to DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort connectors. V4L2_CID_DV_RX_RGB_RANGE enum v4l2_dv_rgb_range Select the quantization range for RGB input. V4L2_DV_RANGE_AUTO follows the RGB quantization range specified in the standard for the video interface (ie. for HDMI). V4L2_DV_RANGE_LIMITED and V4L2_DV_RANGE_FULL override the standard to be compatible with sources that have not implemented the standard correctly (unfortunately quite common for HDMI and DVI-D). Full range allows all possible values to be used whereas limited range sets the range to (16 << (N-8)) - (235 << (N-8)) where N is the number of bits per component. This control is applicable to VGA, DVI-A/D, HDMI and DisplayPort connectors.

The FM Receiver (FM_RX) class includes controls for common features of FM Reception capable devices. ID Type Description V4L2_CID_FM_RX_CLASS  class The FM_RX class descriptor. Calling &VIDIOC-QUERYCTRL; for this control will return a description of this control class. V4L2_CID_RDS_RECEPTION  boolean Enables/disables RDS reception by the radio tuner V4L2_CID_TUNE_DEEMPHASIS  enum v4l2_deemphasis Configures the de-emphasis value for reception. A de-emphasis filter is applied to the broadcast to accentuate the high audio frequencies. Depending on the region, a time constant of either 50 or 75 useconds is used. The enum v4l2_deemphasis defines possible values for de-emphasis. Here they are: V4L2_DEEMPHASIS_DISABLED  No de-emphasis is applied. V4L2_DEEMPHASIS_50_uS  A de-emphasis of 50 uS is used. V4L2_DEEMPHASIS_75_uS  A de-emphasis of 75 uS is used.