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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-encoder-cmd.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-encoder-cmd.xml index af7f3f2a36d..0619ca5d2d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-encoder-cmd.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-encoder-cmd.xml @@ -49,13 +49,6 @@ <refsect1> <title>Description</title> - <note> - <title>Experimental</title> - - <para>This is an <link linkend="experimental">experimental</link> -interface and may change in the future.</para> - </note> - <para>These ioctls control an audio/video (usually MPEG-) encoder. <constant>VIDIOC_ENCODER_CMD</constant> sends a command to the encoder, <constant>VIDIOC_TRY_ENCODER_CMD</constant> can be used to @@ -74,15 +67,16 @@ only used by the STOP command and contains one bit: If the encoding will continue until the end of the current <wordasword>Group Of Pictures</wordasword>, otherwise it will stop immediately.</para> - <para>A <function>read</function>() call sends a START command to -the encoder if it has not been started yet. After a STOP command, + <para>A <function>read</function>() or &VIDIOC-STREAMON; call sends an implicit +START command to the encoder if it has not been started yet. After a STOP command, <function>read</function>() calls will read the remaining data buffered by the driver. When the buffer is empty, <function>read</function>() will return zero and the next <function>read</function>() call will restart the encoder.</para> - <para>A <function>close</function>() call sends an immediate STOP -to the encoder, and all buffered data is discarded.</para> + <para>A <function>close</function>() or &VIDIOC-STREAMOFF; call of a streaming +file descriptor sends an implicit immediate STOP to the encoder, and all buffered +data is discarded.</para> <para>These ioctls are optional, not all drivers may support them. They were introduced in Linux 2.6.21.</para> |
