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Jonas Karlman 90124e1139 avcodec/v4l2request: Probe for a capable media and video device
Probe all media devices and its linked video devices to locate a video
device that support stateless decoding of the specific codec using the
V4L2 Request API.

When AVV4L2RequestDeviceContext.media_fd is a valid file descriptor only
video devices for the opened media device is probed.
E.g. using a -init_hw_device v4l2request:/dev/media1 parameter.

A video device is deemed capable when all tests pass, e.g. kernel driver
support the codec, FFmpeg v4l2-request code know about the buffer format
and kernel driver report that the frame size is supported.

A codec specific hook, post_probe, is supported to e.g. test for codec
specific limitations, PROFILE and LEVEL controls.

Basic flow for initialization follow the kernel Memory-to-memory
Stateless Video Decoder Interface > Initialization [1].

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/userspace-api/media/v4l/dev-stateless-decoder.html#initialization

Co-developed-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Alex Bee <knaerzche@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bee <knaerzche@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas@kwiboo.se>
2025-07-09 20:38:47 +00:00
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libavformat */version.h: bump minor versions for release/7.1 2024-09-24 17:07:30 +02:00
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FFmpeg README

FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.

Libraries

  • libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.
  • libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.
  • libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.
  • libavfilter provides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters.
  • libavdevice provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.
  • libswresample implements audio mixing and resampling routines.
  • libswscale implements color conversion and scaling routines.

Tools

  • ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
  • ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
  • ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
  • Additional small tools such as aviocat, ismindex and qt-faststart.

Documentation

The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.

The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.

Examples

Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.

License

FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.

Contributing

Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.