From 2ddb77bb1138dccb5067690e8696e991093e22c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hans Verkuil Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:00:45 -0300 Subject: [media] DocBook v4l: update bytesperline handling The documentation says that the bytesperline field in v4l2_pix_format refers to the largest plane in the case of planar formats (i.e. multiple planes stores in a single buffer). For almost all planar formats the first plane is also the largest (or equal) plane, except for two formats: V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV24/NV42. For this YUV 4:4:4 format the second chroma plane is twice the size of the first luma plane. Looking at the very few drivers that support this format the bytesperline value that they report is actually that of the first plane and not that of the largest plane. Rather than fixing the drivers it makes more sense to update the documentation since it is very difficult to use the largest plane for this. You would have to check what the format is in order to know to which plane bytesperline belongs, which makes calculations much more difficult. This patch updates the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart Acked-by: Sakari Ailus Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fbuf.xml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fbuf.xml') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fbuf.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fbuf.xml index 20460730b02c..77607cc19688 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fbuf.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fbuf.xml @@ -240,9 +240,9 @@ where padding bytes after the last line of an image cross a system page boundary. Capture devices may write padding bytes, the value is undefined. Output devices ignore the contents of padding bytes.When the image format is planar the -bytesperline value applies to the largest +bytesperline value applies to the first plane and is divided by the same factor as the -width field for any smaller planes. For +width field for the other planes. For example the Cb and Cr planes of a YUV 4:2:0 image have half as many padding bytes following each line as the Y plane. To avoid ambiguities drivers must return a bytesperline value -- cgit v1.2.1