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@@ -31,7 +31,20 @@ describing all planes of that format.
* - __u32
- ``sizeimage``
- - Maximum size in bytes required for image data in this plane.
+ - Maximum size in bytes required for image data in this plane,
+ set by the driver. When the image consists of variable length
+ compressed data this is the number of bytes required by the
+ codec to support the worst-case compression scenario.
+
+ The driver will set the value for uncompressed images.
+
+ Clients are allowed to set the sizeimage field for variable length
+ compressed data flagged with ``V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED`` at
+ :ref:`VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT`, but the driver may ignore it and set the
+ value itself, or it may modify the provided value based on
+ alignment requirements or minimum/maximum size requirements.
+ If the client wants to leave this to the driver, then it should
+ set sizeimage to 0.
* - __u32
- ``bytesperline``
- Distance in bytes between the leftmost pixels in two adjacent