Encoder firmware API description
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Name CX2341X_ENC_PING_FW
Enum 128/0x80
Description
Does nothing. Can be used to check if the firmware is responding.
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Name CX2341X_ENC_START_CAPTURE
Enum 129/0x81
Description
Commences the capture of video, audio and/or VBI data. All encoding
parameters must be initialized prior to this API call. Captures frames
continuously or until a predefined number of frames have been captured.
Param[0]
Capture stream type:
0=MPEG
1=Raw
2=Raw passthrough
3=VBI
Param[1]
Bitmask:
Bit 0 when set, captures YUV
Bit 1 when set, captures PCM audio
Bit 2 when set, captures VBI (same as param[0]=3)
Bit 3 when set, the capture destination is the decoder
(same as param[0]=2)
Bit 4 when set, the capture destination is the host
Note: this parameter is only meaningful for RAW capture type.
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Name CX2341X_ENC_STOP_CAPTURE
Enum 130/0x82
Description
Ends a capture in progress
Param[0]
0=stop at end of GOP (generates IRQ)
1=stop immediate (no IRQ)
Param[1]
Stream type to stop, see param[0] of API 0x81
Param[2]
Subtype, see param[1] of API 0x81
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_AUDIO_ID
Enum 137/0x89
Description
Assigns the transport stream ID of the encoded audio stream
Param[0]
Audio Stream ID
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_VIDEO_ID
Enum 139/0x8B
Description
Set video transport stream ID
Param[0]
Video stream ID
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_PCR_ID
Enum 141/0x8D
Description
Assigns the transport stream ID for PCR packets
Param[0]
PCR Stream ID
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_FRAME_RATE
Enum 143/0x8F
Description
Set video frames per second. Change occurs at start of new GOP.
Param[0]
0=30fps
1=25fps
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_FRAME_SIZE
Enum 145/0x91
Description
Select video stream encoding resolution.
Param[0]
Height in lines. Default 480
Param[1]
Width in pixels. Default 720
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_BIT_RATE
Enum 149/0x95
Description
Assign average video stream bitrate. Note on the last three params:
Param[3] and [4] seem to be always 0, param [5] doesn't seem to be used.
Param[0]
0=variable bitrate, 1=constant bitrate
Param[1]
bitrate in bits per second
Param[2]
peak bitrate in bits per second, divided by 400
Param[3]
Mux bitrate in bits per second, divided by 400. May be 0 (default).
Param[4]
Rate Control VBR Padding
Param[5]
VBV Buffer used by encoder
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_GOP_PROPERTIES
Enum 151/0x97
Description
Setup the GOP structure
Param[0]
GOP size (maximum is 34)
Param[1]
Number of B frames between the I and P frame, plus 1.
For example: IBBPBBPBBPBB --> GOP size: 12, number of B frames: 2+1 = 3
Note that GOP size must be a multiple of (B-frames + 1).
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_ASPECT_RATIO
Enum 153/0x99
Description
Sets the encoding aspect ratio. Changes in the aspect ratio take effect
at the start of the next GOP.
Param[0]
'0000' forbidden
'0001' 1:1 square
'0010' 4:3
'0011' 16:9
'0100' 2.21:1
'0101' reserved
....
'1111' reserved
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_DNR_FILTER_MODE
Enum 155/0x9B
Description
Assign Dynamic Noise Reduction operating mode
Param[0]
Bit0: Spatial filter, set=auto, clear=manual
Bit1: Temporal filter, set=auto, clear=manual
Param[1]
Median filter:
0=Disabled
1=Horizontal
2=Vertical
3=Horiz/Vert
4=Diagonal
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_DNR_FILTER_PROPS
Enum 157/0x9D
Description
These Dynamic Noise Reduction filter values are only meaningful when
the respective filter is set to "manual" (See API 0x9B)
Param[0]
Spatial filter: default 0, range 0:15
Param[1]
Temporal filter: default 0, range 0:31
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_CORING_LEVELS
Enum 159/0x9F
Description
Assign Dynamic Noise Reduction median filter properties.
Param[0]
Threshold above which the luminance median filter is enabled.
Default: 0, range 0:255
Param[1]
Threshold below which the luminance median filter is enabled.
Default: 255, range 0:255
Param[2]
Threshold above which the chrominance median filter is enabled.
Default: 0, range 0:255
Param[3]
Threshold below which the chrominance median filter is enabled.
Default: 255, range 0:255
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_SPATIAL_FILTER_TYPE
Enum 161/0xA1
Description
Assign spatial prefilter parameters
Param[0]
Luminance filter
0=Off
1=1D Horizontal
2=1D Vertical
3=2D H/V Separable (default)
4=2D Symmetric non-separable
Param[1]
Chrominance filter
0=Off
1=1D Horizontal (default)
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_3_2_PULLDOWN
Enum 177/0xB1
Description
3:2 pulldown properties
Param[0]
0=enabled
1=disabled
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_VBI_LINE
Enum 183/0xB7
Description
Selects VBI line number.
Param[0]
Bits 0:4 line number
Bit 31 0=top_field, 1=bottom_field
Bits 0:31 all set specifies "all lines"
Param[1]
VBI line information features: 0=disabled, 1=enabled
Param[2]
Slicing: 0=None, 1=Closed Caption
Almost certainly not implemented. Set to 0.
Param[3]
Luminance samples in this line.
Almost certainly not implemented. Set to 0.
Param[4]
Chrominance samples in this line
Almost certainly not implemented. Set to 0.
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_STREAM_TYPE
Enum 185/0xB9
Description
Assign stream type
Note: Transport stream is not working in recent firmwares.
And in older firmwares the timestamps in the TS seem to be
unreliable.
Param[0]
0=Program stream
1=Transport stream
2=MPEG1 stream
3=PES A/V stream
5=PES Video stream
7=PES Audio stream
10=DVD stream
11=VCD stream
12=SVCD stream
13=DVD_S1 stream
14=DVD_S2 stream
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_OUTPUT_PORT
Enum 187/0xBB
Description
Assign stream output port. Normally 0 when the data is copied through
the PCI bus (DMA), and 1 when the data is streamed to another chip
(pvrusb and cx88-blackbird).
Param[0]
0=Memory (default)
1=Streaming
2=Serial
Param[1]
Unknown, but leaving this to 0 seems to work best. Indications are that
this might have to do with USB support, although passing anything but 0
only breaks things.
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_AUDIO_PROPERTIES
Enum 189/0xBD
Description
Set audio stream properties, may be called while encoding is in progress.
Note: all bitfields are consistent with ISO11172 documentation except
bits 2:3 which ISO docs define as:
'11' Layer I
'10' Layer II
'01' Layer III
'00' Undefined
This discrepancy may indicate a possible error in the documentation.
Testing indicated that only Layer II is actually working, and that
the minimum bitrate should be 192 kbps.
Param[0]
Bitmask:
0:1 '00' 44.1Khz
'01' 48Khz
'10' 32Khz
'11' reserved
2:3 '01'=Layer I
'10'=Layer II
4:7 Bitrate:
Index | Layer I | Layer II
------+-------------+------------
'0000' | free format | free format
'0001' | 32 kbit/s | 32 kbit/s
'0010' | 64 kbit/s | 48 kbit/s
'0011' | 96 kbit/s | 56 kbit/s
'0100' | 128 kbit/s | 64 kbit/s
'0101' | 160 kbit/s | 80 kbit/s
'0110' | 192 kbit/s | 96 kbit/s
'0111' | 224 kbit/s | 112 kbit/s
'1000' | 256 kbit/s | 128 kbit/s
'1001' | 288 kbit/s | 160 kbit/s
'1010' | 320 kbit/s | 192 kbit/s
'1011' | 352 kbit/s | 224 kbit/s
'1100' | 384 kbit/s | 256 kbit/s
'1101' | 416 kbit/s | 320 kbit/s
'1110' | 448 kbit/s | 384 kbit/s
Note: For Layer II, not all combinations of total bitrate
and mode are allowed. See ISO11172-3 3-Annex B, Table 3-B.2
8:9 '00'=Stereo
'01'=JointStereo
'10'=Dual
'11'=Mono
Note: testing seems to indicate that Mono and possibly
JointStereo are not working (default to stereo).
Dual does work, though.
10:11 Mode Extension used in joint_stereo mode.
In Layer I and II they indicate which subbands are in
intensity_stereo. All other subbands are coded in stereo.
'00' subbands 4-31 in intensity_stereo, bound==4
'01' subbands 8-31 in intensity_stereo, bound==8
'10' subbands 12-31 in intensity_stereo, bound==12
'11' subbands 16-31 in intensity_stereo, bound==16
12:13 Emphasis:
'00' None
'01' 50/15uS
'10' reserved
'11' CCITT J.17
14 CRC:
'0' off
'1' on
15 Copyright:
'0' off
'1' on
16 Generation:
'0' copy
'1' original
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Name CX2341X_ENC_HALT_FW
Enum 195/0xC3
Description
The firmware is halted and no further API calls are serviced until the
firmware is uploaded again.
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Name CX2341X_ENC_GET_VERSION
Enum 196/0xC4
Description
Returns the version of the encoder firmware.
Result[0]
Version bitmask:
Bits 0:15 build
Bits 16:23 minor
Bits 24:31 major
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_GOP_CLOSURE
Enum 197/0xC5
Description
Assigns the GOP open/close property.
Param[0]
0=Open
1=Closed
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Name CX2341X_ENC_GET_SEQ_END
Enum 198/0xC6
Description
Obtains the sequence end code of the encoder's buffer. When a capture
is started a number of interrupts are still generated, the last of
which will have Result[0] set to 1 and Result[1] will contain the size
of the buffer.
Result[0]
State of the transfer (1 if last buffer)
Result[1]
If Result[0] is 1, this contains the size of the last buffer, undefined
otherwise.
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_PGM_INDEX_INFO
Enum 199/0xC7
Description
Sets the Program Index Information.
Param[0]
Picture Mask:
0=No index capture
1=I frames
3=I,P frames
7=I,P,B frames
Param[1]
Elements requested (up to 400)
Result[0]
Offset in SDF memory of the table.
Result[1]
Number of allocated elements up to a maximum of Param[1]
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_VBI_CONFIG
Enum 200/0xC8
Description
Configure VBI settings
Param[0]
Bitmap:
0 Mode '0' Sliced, '1' Raw
1:3 Insertion:
'000' insert in extension & user data
'001' insert in private packets
'010' separate stream and user data
'111' separate stream and private data
8:15 Stream ID (normally 0xBD)
Param[1]
Frames per interrupt (max 8). Only valid in raw mode.
Param[2]
Total raw VBI frames. Only valid in raw mode.
Param[3]
Start codes
Param[4]
Stop codes
Param[5]
Lines per frame
Param[6]
Byte per line
Result[0]
Observed frames per interrupt in raw mode only. Rage 1 to Param[1]
Result[1]
Observed number of frames in raw mode. Range 1 to Param[2]
Result[2]
Memory offset to start or raw VBI data
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_DMA_BLOCK_SIZE
Enum 201/0xC9
Description
Set DMA transfer block size
Param[0]
DMA transfer block size in bytes or frames. When unit is bytes,
supported block sizes are 2^7, 2^8 and 2^9 bytes.
Param[1]
Unit: 0=bytes, 1=frames
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Name CX2341X_ENC_GET_PREV_DMA_INFO_MB_10
Enum 202/0xCA
Description
Returns information on the previous DMA transfer in conjunction with
bit 27 of the interrupt mask. Uses mailbox 10.
Result[0]
Type of stream
Result[1]
Address Offset
Result[2]
Maximum size of transfer
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Name CX2341X_ENC_GET_PREV_DMA_INFO_MB_9
Enum 203/0xCB
Description
Returns information on the previous DMA transfer in conjunction with
bit 27 of the interrupt mask. Uses mailbox 9.
Result[0]
Status bits:
Bit 0 set indicates transfer complete
Bit 2 set indicates transfer error
Bit 4 set indicates linked list error
Result[1]
DMA type
Result[2]
Presentation Time Stamp bits 0..31
Result[3]
Presentation Time Stamp bit 32
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SCHED_DMA_TO_HOST
Enum 204/0xCC
Description
Setup DMA to host operation
Param[0]
Memory address of link list
Param[1]
Length of link list (wtf: what units ???)
Param[2]
DMA type (0=MPEG)
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Name CX2341X_ENC_INITIALIZE_INPUT
Enum 205/0xCD
Description
Initializes the video input
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_FRAME_DROP_RATE
Enum 208/0xD0
Description
For each frame captured, skip specified number of frames.
Param[0]
Number of frames to skip
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Name CX2341X_ENC_PAUSE_ENCODER
Enum 210/0xD2
Description
During a pause condition, all frames are dropped instead of being encoded.
Param[0]
0=Pause encoding
1=Continue encoding
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Name CX2341X_ENC_REFRESH_INPUT
Enum 211/0xD3
Description
Refreshes the video input
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_COPYRIGHT
Enum 212/0xD4
Description
Sets stream copyright property
Param[0]
0=Stream is not copyrighted
1=Stream is copyrighted
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_EVENT_NOTIFICATION
Enum 213/0xD5
Description
Setup firmware to notify the host about a particular event. Host must
unmask the interrupt bit.
Param[0]
Event (0=refresh encoder input)
Param[1]
Notification 0=disabled 1=enabled
Param[2]
Interrupt bit
Param[3]
Mailbox slot, -1 if no mailbox required.
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_NUM_VSYNC_LINES
Enum 214/0xD6
Description
Depending on the analog video decoder used, this assigns the number
of lines for field 1 and 2.
Param[0]
Field 1 number of lines:
0x00EF for SAA7114
0x00F0 for SAA7115
0x0105 for Micronas
Param[1]
Field 2 number of lines:
0x00EF for SAA7114
0x00F0 for SAA7115
0x0106 for Micronas
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Name CX2341X_ENC_SET_PLACEHOLDER
Enum 215/0xD7
Description
Provides a mechanism of inserting custom user data in the MPEG stream.
Param[0]
0=extension & user data
1=private packet with stream ID 0xBD
Param[1]
Rate at which to insert data, in units of frames (for private packet)
or GOPs (for ext. & user data)
Param[2]
Number of data DWORDs (below) to insert
Param[3]
Custom data 0
Param[4]
Custom data 1
Param[5]
Custom data 2
Param[6]
Custom data 3
Param[7]
Custom data 4
Param[8]
Custom data 5
Param[9]
Custom data 6
Param[10]
Custom data 7
Param[11]
Custom data 8
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Name CX2341X_ENC_MUTE_VIDEO
Enum 217/0xD9
Description
Video muting
Param[0]
Bit usage:
0 '0'=video not muted
'1'=video muted, creates frames with the YUV color defined below
1:7 Unused
8:15 V chrominance information
16:23 U chrominance information
24:31 Y luminance information
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Name CX2341X_ENC_MUTE_AUDIO
Enum 218/0xDA
Description
Audio muting
Param[0]
0=audio not muted
1=audio muted (produces silent mpeg audio stream)
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Name CX2341X_ENC_UNKNOWN
Enum 219/0xDB
Description
Unknown API, it's used by Hauppauge though.
Param[0]
0 This is the value Hauppauge uses, Unknown what it means.
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Name CX2341X_ENC_MISC
Enum 220/0xDC
Description
Miscellaneous actions. Not known for 100% what it does. It's really a
sort of ioctl call. The first parameter is a command number, the second
the value.
Param[0]
Command number:
1=set initial SCR value when starting encoding.
2=set quality mode (apparently some test setting).
3=setup advanced VIM protection handling (supposedly only for the cx23416
for raw YUV).
Actually it looks like this should be 0 for saa7114/5 based card and 1
for cx25840 based cards.
4=generate artificial PTS timestamps
5=USB flush mode
6=something to do with the quantization matrix
7=set navigation pack insertion for DVD
8=enable scene change detection (seems to be a failure)
9=set history parameters of the video input module
10=set input field order of VIM
11=set quantization matrix
12=reset audio interface
13=set audio volume delay
14=set audio delay
Param[1]
Command value.
