<para>V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_VOLATILE was added to signal volatile controls to userspace.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Add selection API for extended control over cropping and
-composing. Does not affect the compatibility of current drivers and
-applications. See <link linkend="selection-api"> selection API </link> for
-details.</para>
+ <para>Add selection API for extended control over cropping
+ and composing. Does not affect the compatibility of current
+ drivers and applications. See <link
+ linkend="selection-api"> selection API </link> for
+ details.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
</para>
</section>
- <section>
+ <section id="v4l2-subdev-selections">
<title>Selections: cropping, scaling and composition</title>
<para>Many sub-devices support cropping frames on their input or output
&v4l2-rect; by the coordinates of the top left corner and the rectangle
size. Both the coordinates and sizes are expressed in pixels.</para>
- <para>As for pad formats, drivers store try and active rectangles for
- the selection targets <xref
- linkend="v4l2-subdev-selection-targets" />.</para>
+ <para>As for pad formats, drivers store try and active
+ rectangles for the selection targets <xref
+ linkend="v4l2-selections-common" />.</para>
<para>On sink pads, cropping is applied relative to the
current pad format. The pad format represents the image size as
<para>Scaling support is optional. When supported by a subdev,
the crop rectangle on the subdev's sink pad is scaled to the
size configured using the &VIDIOC-SUBDEV-S-SELECTION; IOCTL
- using <constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE</constant>
+ using <constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE</constant>
selection target on the same pad. If the subdev supports scaling
but not composing, the top and left values are not used and must
always be set to zero.</para>
performed by the user: the changes made will be propagated to
any subsequent stages. If this behaviour is not desired, the
user must set
- <constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_FLAG_KEEP_CONFIG</constant> flag. This
+ <constant>V4L2_SEL_FLAG_KEEP_CONFIG</constant> flag. This
flag causes no propagation of the changes are allowed in any
circumstances. This may also cause the accessed rectangle to be
adjusted by the driver, depending on the properties of the
</mediaobject>
</figure>
-For complete list of the available selection targets see table <xref
-linkend="v4l2-sel-target"/>
-
</section>
+ See <xref linkend="v4l2-selection-targets-table" /> for more
+ information.
+
<section>
<title>Configuration</title>
--- /dev/null
+<section id="v4l2-selections-common">
+
+ <title>Selection targets</title>
+
+ <para>While the <link linkend="selection-api">V4L2 selection
+ API</link> and <link linkend="v4l2-subdev-selections">V4L2 subdev
+ selection APIs</link> are very similar, there's one fundamental
+ difference between the two. On sub-device API, the selection
+ rectangle refers to the media bus format, and is bound to a
+ sub-device's pad. On the V4L2 interface the selection rectangles
+ refer to the in-memory pixel format.</para>
+
+ <para>The precise meaning of the selection targets may thus be
+ affected on which of the two interfaces they are used.</para>
+
+ <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-selection-targets-table">
+ <title>Selection target definitions</title>
+ <tgroup cols="5">
+ <colspec colname="c1" />
+ <colspec colname="c2" />
+ <colspec colname="c3" />
+ <colspec colname="c4" />
+ <colspec colname="c5" />
+ &cs-def;
+ <thead>
+ <row rowsep="1">
+ <entry align="left">Target name</entry>
+ <entry align="left">id</entry>
+ <entry align="left">Definition</entry>
+ <entry align="left">Valid for V4L2</entry>
+ <entry align="left">Valid for V4L2 subdev</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody valign="top">
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP</constant></entry>
+ <entry>0x0000</entry>
+ <entry>Crop rectangle. Defines the cropped area.</entry>
+ <entry>Yes</entry>
+ <entry>Yes</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP_DEFAULT</constant></entry>
+ <entry>0x0001</entry>
+ <entry>Suggested cropping rectangle that covers the "whole picture".</entry>
+ <entry>Yes</entry>
+ <entry>No</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP_BOUNDS</constant></entry>
+ <entry>0x0002</entry>
+ <entry>Bounds of the crop rectangle. All valid crop
+ rectangles fit inside the crop bounds rectangle.
+ </entry>
+ <entry>Yes</entry>
+ <entry>Yes</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE</constant></entry>
+ <entry>0x0100</entry>
+ <entry>Compose rectangle. Used to configure scaling
+ and composition.</entry>
+ <entry>Yes</entry>
+ <entry>Yes</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_DEFAULT</constant></entry>
+ <entry>0x0101</entry>
+ <entry>Suggested composition rectangle that covers the "whole picture".</entry>
+ <entry>Yes</entry>
+ <entry>No</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_BOUNDS</constant></entry>
+ <entry>0x0102</entry>
+ <entry>Bounds of the compose rectangle. All valid compose
+ rectangles fit inside the compose bounds rectangle.</entry>
+ <entry>Yes</entry>
+ <entry>Yes</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_PADDED</constant></entry>
+ <entry>0x0103</entry>
+ <entry>The active area and all padding pixels that are inserted or
+ modified by hardware.</entry>
+ <entry>Yes</entry>
+ <entry>No</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+</section>
&sub-write;
</appendix>
+ <appendix>
+ <title>Common definitions for V4L2 and V4L2 subdev interfaces</title>
+ &sub-selections-common;
+ </appendix>
+
<appendix id="videodev">
<title>Video For Linux Two Header File</title>
&sub-videodev2-h;
setting the value of &v4l2-selection; <structfield>target</structfield> field
to <constant> V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP </constant> (<constant>
V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE </constant>). Please refer to table <xref
-linkend="v4l2-sel-target" /> or <xref linkend="selection-api" /> for additional
+linkend="v4l2-selections-common" /> or <xref linkend="selection-api" /> for additional
targets. The <structfield>flags</structfield> and <structfield>reserved
</structfield> fields of &v4l2-selection; are ignored and they must be filled
with zeros. The driver fills the rest of the structure or
setting the value of &v4l2-selection; <structfield>target</structfield> to
<constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP</constant> (<constant>
V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE </constant>). Please refer to table <xref
-linkend="v4l2-sel-target" /> or <xref linkend="selection-api" /> for additional
+linkend="v4l2-selections-common" /> or <xref linkend="selection-api" /> for additional
targets. The &v4l2-rect; <structfield>r</structfield> rectangle need to be
set to the desired active area. Field &v4l2-selection; <structfield> reserved
</structfield> is ignored and must be filled with zeros. The driver may adjust
</refsect1>
- <refsect1>
- <table frame="none" pgwide="1" id="v4l2-sel-target">
- <title>Selection targets.</title>
- <tgroup cols="3">
- &cs-def;
- <tbody valign="top">
- <row>
- <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP</constant></entry>
- <entry>0x0000</entry>
- <entry>The area that is currently cropped by hardware.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP_DEFAULT</constant></entry>
- <entry>0x0001</entry>
- <entry>Suggested cropping rectangle that covers the "whole picture".</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP_BOUNDS</constant></entry>
- <entry>0x0002</entry>
- <entry>Limits for the cropping rectangle.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE</constant></entry>
- <entry>0x0100</entry>
- <entry>The area to which data is composed by hardware.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_DEFAULT</constant></entry>
- <entry>0x0101</entry>
- <entry>Suggested composing rectangle that covers the "whole picture".</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_BOUNDS</constant></entry>
- <entry>0x0102</entry>
- <entry>Limits for the composing rectangle.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_PADDED</constant></entry>
- <entry>0x0103</entry>
- <entry>The active area and all padding pixels that are inserted or
- modified by hardware.</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
- </refsect1>
+ <para>Selection targets are documented in <xref
+ linkend="v4l2-selections-common"/>.</para>
<refsect1>
<table frame="none" pgwide="1" id="v4l2-sel-flags">
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>target</structfield></entry>
- <entry>Used to select between <link linkend="v4l2-sel-target"> cropping
+ <entry>Used to select between <link linkend="v4l2-selections-common"> cropping
and composing rectangles</link>.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<constant>EINVAL</constant>.</para>
</section>
- <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-subdev-selection-targets">
- <title>V4L2 subdev selection targets</title>
- <tgroup cols="3">
- &cs-def;
- <tbody valign="top">
- <row>
- <entry><constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_TGT_CROP</constant></entry>
- <entry>0x0000</entry>
- <entry>Actual crop. Defines the cropping
- performed by the processing step.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_TGT_CROP_BOUNDS</constant></entry>
- <entry>0x0002</entry>
- <entry>Bounds of the crop rectangle.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE</constant></entry>
- <entry>0x0100</entry>
- <entry>Actual compose rectangle. Used to configure scaling
- on sink pads and composition on source pads.</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_BOUNDS</constant></entry>
- <entry>0x0102</entry>
- <entry>Bounds of the compose rectangle.</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
+ <para>Selection targets are documented in <xref
+ linkend="v4l2-selections-common"/>.</para>
<table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-subdev-selection-flags">
<title>V4L2 subdev selection flags</title>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>target</structfield></entry>
<entry>Target selection rectangle. See
- <xref linkend="v4l2-subdev-selection-targets">.</xref>.</entry>
+ <xref linkend="v4l2-selections-common" />.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>