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@@ -89,7 +89,18 @@ Single-planar format structure
- Size in bytes of the buffer to hold a complete image, set by the
driver. Usually this is ``bytesperline`` times ``height``. When
the image consists of variable length compressed data this is the
- maximum number of bytes required to hold an image.
+ 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
- ``colorspace``
- Image colorspace, from enum :c:type:`v4l2_colorspace`.