Commit 21ea3def authored by Nicolas Dufresne's avatar Nicolas Dufresne Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab

media: doc: h264/hevc: Clarify _START_CODE_NONE meaning

As some hardware have a knob to enable or disable emulation prevention
bytes removal, driver writers ended up wondering what exactly the
START_CODE_NONE modes meant in this regards. This patch clarify what is
expected with a reference to the specification.
Reported-by: default avatarJohn Cox <jc@kynesim.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
parent 6a49401e
......@@ -769,7 +769,9 @@ Stateless Codec Control ID
* - ``V4L2_STATELESS_H264_START_CODE_NONE``
- 0
- Selecting this value specifies that H264 slices are passed
to the driver without any start code.
to the driver without any start code. The bitstream data should be
according to :ref:`h264` 7.3.1 NAL unit syntax, hence contains
emulation prevention bytes when required.
* - ``V4L2_STATELESS_H264_START_CODE_ANNEX_B``
- 1
- Selecting this value specifies that H264 slices are expected
......
......@@ -3719,7 +3719,9 @@ enum v4l2_mpeg_video_hevc_size_of_length_field -
* - ``V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_START_CODE_NONE``
- 0
- Selecting this value specifies that HEVC slices are passed
to the driver without any start code.
to the driver without any start code. The bitstream data should be
according to :ref:`hevc` 7.3.1.1 General NAL unit syntax, hence
contains emulation prevention bytes when required.
* - ``V4L2_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_START_CODE_ANNEX_B``
- 1
- Selecting this value specifies that HEVC slices are expected
......
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