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authorDetlev Casanova <detlev.casanova@collabora.com>2024-01-17 10:10:17 -0500
committerHans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>2024-02-16 11:46:33 +0100
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doc: media: visl: Document tpg_verbose parameter
Also document stable frames and what it means for testing tools. Signed-off-by: Detlev Casanova <detlev.casanova@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> [hverkuil: add media: prefix to Subject]
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@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ Module parameters
visl_dprintk_frame_start, visl_dprintk_nframes, but controls the dumping of
buffer data through debugfs instead.
+- tpg_verbose: Write extra information on each output frame to ease debugging
+ the API. When set to true, the output frames are not stable for a given input
+ as some information like pointers or queue status will be added to them.
+
What is the default use case for this driver?
---------------------------------------------
@@ -57,8 +61,12 @@ This assumes that a working client is run against visl and that the ftrace and
OUTPUT buffer data is subsequently used to debug a work-in-progress
implementation.
-Information on reference frames, their timestamps, the status of the OUTPUT and
-CAPTURE queues and more can be read directly from the CAPTURE buffers.
+Even though no video decoding is actually done, the output frames can be used
+against a reference for a given input, except if tpg_verbose is set to true.
+
+Depending on the tpg_verbose parameter value, information on reference frames,
+their timestamps, the status of the OUTPUT and CAPTURE queues and more can be
+read directly from the CAPTURE buffers.
Supported codecs
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