From ec9aa62a1e4d151e9f14b7bda0b13438a901f904 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ming Qian Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:31:54 +0000 Subject: media: add RealVideo format RV30 and RV40 RealVideo, or also spelled as Real Video, is a suite of proprietary video compression formats developed by RealNetworks - the specific format changes with the version. RealVideo codecs are identified by four-character codes. RV30 and RV40 are RealNetworks' proprietary H.264-based codecs. Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dufresne Signed-off-by: Ming Qian Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- .../userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l') diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst index a0230f357680..06b78e5589d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-compressed.rst @@ -237,6 +237,26 @@ Compressed Formats Metadata associated with the frame to decode is required to be passed through the ``V4L2_CID_STATELESS_FWHT_PARAMS`` control. See the :ref:`associated Codec Control ID `. + * .. _V4L2-PIX-FMT-RV30: + + - ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_RV30`` + - 'RV30' + - RealVideo, or also spelled as Real Video, is a suite of + proprietary video compression formats developed by + RealNetworks - the specific format changes with the version. + RealVideo codecs are identified by four-character codes. + RV30 corresponds to RealVideo 8, suspected to be based + largely on an early draft of H.264 + * .. _V4L2-PIX-FMT-RV40: + + - ``V4L2_PIX_FMT_RV40`` + - 'RV40' + - RV40 represents RealVideo 9 and RealVideo 10. + RealVideo 9, suspected to be based on H.264. + RealVideo 10, aka RV9 EHQ, This refers to an improved encoder + for the RV9 format that is fully backwards compatible with + RV9 players - the format and decoder did not change, only + the encoder did. As a result, it uses the same FourCC. .. raw:: latex -- cgit