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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>2010-03-27 13:10:37 -0400
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2010-05-19 11:58:09 -0400
commit37089368c1b1bea3c71217163e6d5d3b01ef1f19 (patch)
tree59bc5047fae96e5d55aff71848cddfcedf60f741 /Documentation/DocBook/v4l/io.xml
parent092501936fc128992456a086193746cf34642815 (diff)
V4L/DVB: v4l spec: document what odd and even fields are
Document that odd == top and even == bottom. I can never remember this, so it is probably worth documenting. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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@@ -918,8 +918,8 @@ order</emphasis>.</para>
918 918
919 <para>When the driver provides or accepts images field by field 919 <para>When the driver provides or accepts images field by field
920rather than interleaved, it is also important applications understand 920rather than interleaved, it is also important applications understand
921how the fields combine to frames. We distinguish between top and 921how the fields combine to frames. We distinguish between top (aka odd) and
922bottom fields, the <emphasis>spatial order</emphasis>: The first line 922bottom (aka even) fields, the <emphasis>spatial order</emphasis>: The first line
923of the top field is the first line of an interlaced frame, the first 923of the top field is the first line of an interlaced frame, the first
924line of the bottom field is the second line of that frame.</para> 924line of the bottom field is the second line of that frame.</para>
925 925
@@ -972,12 +972,12 @@ between <constant>V4L2_FIELD_TOP</constant> and
972 <row> 972 <row>
973 <entry><constant>V4L2_FIELD_TOP</constant></entry> 973 <entry><constant>V4L2_FIELD_TOP</constant></entry>
974 <entry>2</entry> 974 <entry>2</entry>
975 <entry>Images consist of the top field only.</entry> 975 <entry>Images consist of the top (aka odd) field only.</entry>
976 </row> 976 </row>
977 <row> 977 <row>
978 <entry><constant>V4L2_FIELD_BOTTOM</constant></entry> 978 <entry><constant>V4L2_FIELD_BOTTOM</constant></entry>
979 <entry>3</entry> 979 <entry>3</entry>
980 <entry>Images consist of the bottom field only. 980 <entry>Images consist of the bottom (aka even) field only.
981Applications may wish to prevent a device from capturing interlaced 981Applications may wish to prevent a device from capturing interlaced
982images because they will have "comb" or "feathering" artefacts around 982images because they will have "comb" or "feathering" artefacts around
983moving objects.</entry> 983moving objects.</entry>