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| 1 | +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 |
| 2 | +
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| 3 | +.. include:: <isonum.txt> |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +NPCM video driver |
| 6 | +================= |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +This driver is used to control the Video Capture/Differentiation (VCD) engine |
| 9 | +and Encoding Compression Engine (ECE) present on Nuvoton NPCM SoCs. The VCD can |
| 10 | +capture a frame from digital video input and compare two frames in memory, and |
| 11 | +the ECE can compress the frame data into HEXTILE format. |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +Driver-specific Controls |
| 14 | +------------------------ |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +V4L2_CID_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE |
| 17 | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +The VCD engine supports two modes: |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +- COMPLETE mode: |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | + Capture the next complete frame into memory. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +- DIFF mode: |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | + Compare the incoming frame with the frame stored in memory, and updates the |
| 28 | + differentiated frame in memory. |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +Application can use ``V4L2_CID_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE`` control to set the VCD mode |
| 31 | +with different control values (enum v4l2_npcm_capture_mode): |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +- ``V4L2_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE_COMPLETE``: will set VCD to COMPLETE mode. |
| 34 | +- ``V4L2_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE_DIFF``: will set VCD to DIFF mode. |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +V4L2_CID_NPCM_RECT_COUNT |
| 37 | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +If using V4L2_PIX_FMT_HEXTILE format, VCD will capture frame data and then ECE |
| 40 | +will compress the data into HEXTILE rectangles and store them in V4L2 video |
| 41 | +buffer with the layout defined in Remote Framebuffer Protocol: |
| 42 | +:: |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | + (RFC 6143, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6143.html#section-7.6.1) |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | + +--------------+--------------+-------------------+ |
| 47 | + | No. of bytes | Type [Value] | Description | |
| 48 | + +--------------+--------------+-------------------+ |
| 49 | + | 2 | U16 | x-position | |
| 50 | + | 2 | U16 | y-position | |
| 51 | + | 2 | U16 | width | |
| 52 | + | 2 | U16 | height | |
| 53 | + | 4 | S32 | encoding-type (5) | |
| 54 | + +--------------+--------------+-------------------+ |
| 55 | + | HEXTILE rectangle data | |
| 56 | + +-------------------------------------------------+ |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +Application can get the video buffer through VIDIOC_DQBUF, and followed by |
| 59 | +calling ``V4L2_CID_NPCM_RECT_COUNT`` control to get the number of HEXTILE |
| 60 | +rectangles in this buffer. |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +References |
| 63 | +---------- |
| 64 | +include/uapi/linux/npcm-video.h |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +**Copyright** |copy| 2022 Nuvoton Technologies |
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