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From: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.co.uk>,
	Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com>,
	Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>,
	Kamil Debski <k.debski@samsung.com>,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] [media] coda: fix coda_g_selection
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:32:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1406496776.2628.1.camel@mpb-nicolas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53D54338.9090707@xs4all.nl>

Le dimanche 27 juillet 2014 à 20:21 +0200, Hans Verkuil a écrit :
> If cropcap returns -EINVAL then that means that the current input or
> output does
> not support cropping (for input) or composing (for output). In that case the
> pixel aspect ratio is undefined and you have no way to get hold of that information,
> which is a bug in the V4L2 API.
> 
> In the case of an m2m device you can safely assume that whatever the pixel aspect
> is of the image you give to the m2m device, it will still be the same pixel
> aspect when you get it back. In fact, I would say that if an m2m device returns
> cropcap information, then the pixel aspect ratio information is most likely not
> applicable to the device and will typically be 1:1.
> 
> Pixel aspect ratio is only relevant if the video comes in or goes out to a physical
> interface (sensor, video receiver/transmitter).

So far "not applicable" has been interpreted as not implemented /
ENOTTY. Can't CODA just do that and we can close this subject ?

Nicolas



  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-27 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-26 14:34 [PATCH 1/3] [media] coda: fix coda_s_fmt_vid_out Philipp Zabel
2014-07-26 14:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] [media] coda: fix coda_g_selection Philipp Zabel
2014-07-26 15:12   ` Hans Verkuil
2014-07-26 16:37     ` Philipp Zabel
2014-07-26 17:08       ` Hans Verkuil
2014-07-27 16:53       ` Nicolas Dufresne
2014-07-27 18:21         ` Hans Verkuil
2014-07-27 21:32           ` Nicolas Dufresne [this message]
2014-07-27 22:22             ` Hans Verkuil
2014-07-28  9:28               ` Philipp Zabel
2014-07-26 14:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] [media] coda: set capture frame size with output S_FMT Philipp Zabel

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