Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] media: uapi: videodev2: Add support for AV1 stateful decoder

[Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>]

On 30/10/2025 07:00, Deepa Guthyappa Madivalara wrote:
> Introduce a new pixel format, V4L2_PIX_FMT_AV1, to the
> Video4Linux2(V4L2) API. This format is intended for AV1
> bitstreams in stateful decoding/encoding workflows.
> The fourcc code 'AV10' is used to distinguish
> this format from the existing V4L2_PIX_FMT_AV1_FRAME,
> which is used for stateless AV1 decoder implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Deepa Guthyappa Madivalara <deepa.madivalara@oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst | 8 ++++++++
>   include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h                              | 1 +
>   2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst
> index c7efb0465db6480fe35be8557728c196e0e530f4..0c70410ffd4d58e0719d3cf13ad336c97b454ae9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst
> @@ -275,6 +275,14 @@ Compressed Formats
>           of macroblocks to decode a full corresponding frame to the matching
>           capture buffer.
> 
> +    * .. _V4L2-PIX-FMT-AV1:
> +
> +      - ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_AV1``
> +      - 'AV01'
> +      - AV1 compressed video frame. This format is adapted for implementing AV1
> +        pipeline. The decoder implements stateful video decoder and expects one
> +        Temporal Unit per buffer from OBU-stream or AnnexB.
> +        The encoder generates one Temporal Unit per buffer.
>   .. raw:: latex
> 
>       \normalsize
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
> index becd08fdbddb857f8f2bf205d2164dc6e20e80b2..cf0b71bbe0f9d397e1e6c88433a0fc3ba11fb947 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
> @@ -775,6 +775,7 @@ struct v4l2_pix_format {
>   #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_H264_SLICE v4l2_fourcc('S', '2', '6', '4') /* H264 parsed slices */
>   #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_HEVC_SLICE v4l2_fourcc('S', '2', '6', '5') /* HEVC parsed slices */
>   #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_AV1_FRAME v4l2_fourcc('A', 'V', '1', 'F') /* AV1 parsed frame */
> +#define V4L2_PIX_FMT_AV1      v4l2_fourcc('A', 'V', '0', '1') /* AV1 */
>   #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_SPK      v4l2_fourcc('S', 'P', 'K', '0') /* Sorenson Spark */
>   #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_RV30     v4l2_fourcc('R', 'V', '3', '0') /* RealVideo 8 */
>   #define V4L2_PIX_FMT_RV40     v4l2_fourcc('R', 'V', '4', '0') /* RealVideo 9 & 10 */
> 
> --
> 2.34.1
> 
Reviewed-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>