Commit 37089368 authored by Hans Verkuil's avatar Hans Verkuil Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab

V4L/DVB: v4l spec: document what odd and even fields are

Document that odd == top and even == bottom. I can never remember this,
so it is probably worth documenting.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
parent 09250193
......@@ -918,8 +918,8 @@ order</emphasis>.</para>
<para>When the driver provides or accepts images field by field
rather than interleaved, it is also important applications understand
how the fields combine to frames. We distinguish between top and
bottom fields, the <emphasis>spatial order</emphasis>: The first line
how the fields combine to frames. We distinguish between top (aka odd) and
bottom (aka even) fields, the <emphasis>spatial order</emphasis>: The first line
of the top field is the first line of an interlaced frame, the first
line of the bottom field is the second line of that frame.</para>
......@@ -972,12 +972,12 @@ between <constant>V4L2_FIELD_TOP</constant> and
<row>
<entry><constant>V4L2_FIELD_TOP</constant></entry>
<entry>2</entry>
<entry>Images consist of the top field only.</entry>
<entry>Images consist of the top (aka odd) field only.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><constant>V4L2_FIELD_BOTTOM</constant></entry>
<entry>3</entry>
<entry>Images consist of the bottom field only.
<entry>Images consist of the bottom (aka even) field only.
Applications may wish to prevent a device from capturing interlaced
images because they will have "comb" or "feathering" artefacts around
moving objects.</entry>
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