I have collected all the ideas up to now in a V2 of the agenda.
The items are grouped by the person(s) that suggested them. As done in the past those who suggested a topic and who will attend the mini-summit are expected to prepare for it, perhaps making a (very) small presentation if necessary.
Hans Verkuil:
- Discuss ideas/use-cases for a property-based API. An initial discussion appeared in this thread:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/65...
- What is needed to share i2c video transmitters between drm and v4l? Hopefully we will know more after the upcoming LPC.
- Decide on how v4l2 support libraries should be organized. There is code for handling raw-to-sliced VBI decoding, ALSA looping, finding associated video/alsa nodes and for TV frequency tables. We should decide how that should be organized into libraries and how they should be documented. The first two aren't libraries at the moment, but I think they should be. The last two are libraries but they aren't installed. Some work is also being done on an improved version of the 'associating nodes' library that uses the MC if available.
- Define the interaction between selection API, ENUM_FRAMESIZES and S_FMT. See this thread for all the nasty details:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg65137.html
- VIDIOC_TRY_FMT shouldn't return -EINVAL when an unsupported pixelformat is provided, but in practice video capture board tend to do that, while webcam drivers tend to map it silently to a valid pixelformat. Some applications rely on the -EINVAL error code.
We need to decide how to adjust the spec. I propose to just say that some drivers will map it silently and others will return -EINVAL and that you don't know what a driver will do. Also specify that an unsupported pixelformat is the only reason why TRY_FMT might return -EINVAL.
Alternatively we might want to specify explicitly that EINVAL should be returned for video capture devices (i.e. devices supporting S_STD or S_DV_TIMINGS) and 0 for all others.
Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- Better integration between DVB and V4L2, including starting using the media controller API on DVB side too.
- Get the status about the media controller API usage on ALSA.
Oliver Schinagl, Benjamin Gaignard, Hugues Fruchet, Laurent Pinchart, Pawel Osciak:
- How to handle codecs where part of the processing is done in HW and part in SW?
Sakari Ailus:
- Multi-format frames and metadata. Support would be needed on video nodes and V4L2 subdev nodes. I'll prepare the RFC for the former; the latter has an RFC here: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg67295.html
Ricardo Ribalda Delgado, Sylwester Nawrocki:
- Support for multiple rectangle cropping See thread: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg67824.html
Feel free to add suggestions to this list.
As it stands I don't think it will be possible to handle it all in one day. In particular the codec problem as mentioned by Oliver et al needs a lot of time. Should we set aside a separate day for just this? October 21 or 22 would work for me. I would really like to get some feedback on this. If we decide to go for a second day for this topic, then I can see if I can get a room. It looks like there is a lot of interest in getting this sorted, so brainstorming for a day might be quite useful.
Note: my email availability will be limited in the next two weeks, especially next week, as I am abroad (LinuxCon and LPC).
Regards,
Hans
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