From: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
To: Andrea <audetto@tiscali.it>
Cc: video4linux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: A question about VIDIOC_DQBUF
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:31:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215761512.1679.17.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487678F6.50609@tiscali.it>
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 22:02 +0100, Andrea wrote:
> Is there anybody who could help my with the followin?
Not sure, but I'll try.
> I would like to know if my interpretation of VIDIOC_DQBUF is correct.
[snip]
> >> - First, an application queues a buffer, then it dequeues the buffer.
> >> - Then again, a buffer is queued and then dequeued.
> >> - Dequeuing a buffer blocks is the buffer is not ready (unless device
> >> opened with O_NONBLOCK).
DQBUF blocks if _no_ buffer is ready.
> >> - Trying to dequeue a buffer without queuing it first is an error, and
> >> the ioctl VIDIOC_DQBUF should return -EINVAL.
You do not set a specific buffer at DQBUF call.
> > - One can only VIDIOC_DQBUF after calling STREAMON. Before it should
> > return -EINVAL? Block?
No, STREAMON may be done later by an other application.
> > - After calling STREAMOFF, VIDIOC_DQBUF should return -EINVAL
No, same reason as above.
> >> Now, about pwc: (if the above is correct).
> >>
> >> 1) VIDIOC_DQBUF blocks always until a buffer is ready, regardless of
> >> O_NONBLOCK.
Oh, bad guy!
> >> 2) VIDIOC_DQBUF does not check if a buffer has been previously queued.
> >> Moreover VIDIOC_QBUF is almost a no-op. It has no way to check if a
> >> buffer has been queued before VIDIOC_DQBUF.
Seems normal.
> >> If I have understood correctly (very unlikely), this is the reason why
> >> mplayer hangs while stopping the stream with pwc:
> >>
> >> while (!ioctl(priv->video_fd, VIDIOC_DQBUF, &buf));
> >>
> >
> > This code is not needed because STREAMOFF flushes the buffer queue. Does
> > it not?
Correct.
> >> This code should eventually return -EINVAL, while pwc just blocks
> >> waiting for the next buffer (which never arrives because
> >> VIDIOC_STREAMOFF has been called).
> >
> > pwc should return -EINVAL to all ioctl calls after STREAMOFF?
No.
> > Could someone please tell me where I am right and where I am wrong...
Done.
It was a good idea to point me on these problems. I will update the
gspca driver accordingly.
Thank you.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-08 20:18 A question about VIDIOC_DQBUF Andrea
2008-07-08 22:14 ` Andrea
2008-07-10 21:02 ` Andrea
2008-07-11 7:31 ` Jean-Francois Moine [this message]
2008-07-11 20:03 ` Andrea
[not found] ` <c8b4dbe10807090704t4e98b8cu253fab39a9dd81d@mail.gmail.com>
2008-07-11 19:17 ` Andrea
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