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I am a noob in v4l2 and tryign to find out the difference between the various ioctl calls made during the camera image capture. I am following this pdf from the linuxtv.org site
I wanted to know the difference between the following :
Query, Enque, Deque and Queue(ing) of the buffer. Is there a particular sequence in fetching the raw data from the camera? Does the sequence varies in case of streaming and capture mode?
Can any one plz explain.
Following state machine describes a V4L2-buffer’s life-cycle:
The sequence is the same for both streaming as well as capture.
Its just that during capture one does the Q/DQ just once to obtain one buffer (i.e. a single “frame”). Streaming does this repeatedly.
Detailed info in this series of V4L2 articles…
Part 1: The Video4Linux2 API
Part 2: registration and open()
Part 3: Basic ioctl() handling
Part 4: Inputs and Outputs
Part 5a: Colors and formats
Part 5b: Format negotiation
Part 6a: Basic frame I/O
Part 6b: Streaming I/O
Part 7: Controls