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+.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
+.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
+.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts
+.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at
+.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst.
+..
+.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
+
+.. _VIDEO_PLAY:
+
+==========
+VIDEO_PLAY
+==========
+
+Name
+----
+
+VIDEO_PLAY
+
+.. attention:: This ioctl is deprecated.
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+.. c:function:: int ioctl(fd, VIDEO_PLAY)
+ :name: VIDEO_PLAY
+
+
+Arguments
+---------
+
+.. flat-table::
+ :header-rows: 0
+ :stub-columns: 0
+
+
+ - .. row 1
+
+ - int fd
+
+ - File descriptor returned by a previous call to open().
+
+ - .. row 2
+
+ - int request
+
+ - Equals VIDEO_PLAY for this command.
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This ioctl is for Digital TV devices only. To control a V4L2 decoder use the
+V4L2 :ref:`VIDIOC_DECODER_CMD` instead.
+
+This ioctl call asks the Video Device to start playing a video stream
+from the selected source.
+
+
+Return Value
+------------
+
+On success 0 is returned, on error -1 and the ``errno`` variable is set
+appropriately. The generic error codes are described at the
+:ref:`Generic Error Codes <gen-errors>` chapter.