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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2009-09-13 22:16:04 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2009-09-18 23:47:55 -0300 |
| commit | 8e080c2e6cadada82a6b520e0c23a1cb974822d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 991450ff1abba98e5313906478c33816a202ccab /Documentation/DocBook | |
| parent | f4e96deb4513d044653027d4921fd7592195503a (diff) | |
V4L/DVB (12761): DocBook: add media API specs
The V4L and DVB API's are there for a long time. however, up to now,
no efforts were done to merge them to kernel DocBook.
This patch adds the current versions of the specs as an unique compendium.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook')
122 files changed, 36715 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index 9632444f6c6..ad07875febc 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml mcabook.xml device-drivers.xml \ genericirq.xml s390-drivers.xml uio-howto.xml scsi.xml \ mac80211.xml debugobjects.xml sh.xml regulator.xml \ alsa-driver-api.xml writing-an-alsa-driver.xml \ - tracepoint.xml + tracepoint.xml media.xml ### # The build process is as follows (targets): diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/audio.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/audio.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..eeb96b8a086 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/dvb/audio.xml @@ -0,0 +1,1473 @@ +<title>DVB Audio Device</title> +<para>The DVB audio device controls the MPEG2 audio decoder of the DVB hardware. It +can be accessed through <emphasis role="tt">/dev/dvb/adapter0/audio0</emphasis>. Data types and and +ioctl definitions can be accessed by including <emphasis role="tt">linux/dvb/video.h</emphasis> in your +application. +</para> +<para>Please note that some DVB cards don’t have their own MPEG decoder, which results in +the omission of the audio and video device. +</para> + +<section id="audio_data_types"> +<title>Audio Data Types</title> +<para>This section describes the structures, data types and defines used when talking to the +audio device. +</para> + +<section id="audio_stream_source_t"> +<title>audio_stream_source_t</title> +<para>The audio stream source is set through the AUDIO_SELECT_SOURCE call and can take +the following values, depending on whether we are replaying from an internal (demux) or +external (user write) source. +</para> +<programlisting> + typedef enum { + AUDIO_SOURCE_DEMUX, + AUDIO_SOURCE_MEMORY + } audio_stream_source_t; +</programlisting> +<para>AUDIO_SOURCE_DEMUX selects the demultiplexer (fed either by the frontend or the +DVR device) as the source of the video stream. If AUDIO_SOURCE_MEMORY +is selected the stream comes from the application through the <emphasis role="tt">write()</emphasis> system +call. +</para> + +</section> +<section id="audio_play_state_t"> +<title>audio_play_state_t</title> +<para>The following values can be returned by the AUDIO_GET_STATUS call representing the +state of audio playback. +</para> +<programlisting> + typedef enum { + AUDIO_STOPPED, + AUDIO_PLAYING, + AUDIO_PAUSED + } audio_play_state_t; +</programlisting> + +</section> +<section id="audio_channel_select_t"> +<title>audio_channel_select_t</title> +<para>The audio channel selected via AUDIO_CHANNEL_SELECT is determined by the +following values. +</para> +<programlisting> + typedef enum { + AUDIO_STEREO, + AUDIO_MONO_LEFT, + AUDIO_MONO_RIGHT, + } audio_channel_select_t; +</programlisting> + +</section> +<section id="struct_audio_status"> +<title>struct audio_status</title> +<para>The AUDIO_GET_STATUS call returns the following structure informing about various +states of the playback operation. +</para> +<programlisting> + typedef struct audio_status { + boolean AV_sync_state; + boolean mute_state; + audio_play_state_t play_state; + audio_stream_source_t stream_source; + audio_channel_select_t channel_select; + boolean bypass_mode; + } audio_status_t; +</programlisting> |