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author | Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> | 2010-03-27 13:10:37 -0400 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2010-05-19 11:58:09 -0400 |
commit | 37089368c1b1bea3c71217163e6d5d3b01ef1f19 (patch) | |
tree | 59bc5047fae96e5d55aff71848cddfcedf60f741 /Documentation | |
parent | 092501936fc128992456a086193746cf34642815 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/v4l/io.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/io.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/io.xml index e870330cbf77..bb685ed6fe7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/io.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/io.xml | |||
@@ -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 |
920 | rather than interleaved, it is also important applications understand | 920 | rather than interleaved, it is also important applications understand |
921 | how the fields combine to frames. We distinguish between top and | 921 | how the fields combine to frames. We distinguish between top (aka odd) and |
922 | bottom fields, the <emphasis>spatial order</emphasis>: The first line | 922 | bottom (aka even) fields, the <emphasis>spatial order</emphasis>: The first line |
923 | of the top field is the first line of an interlaced frame, the first | 923 | of the top field is the first line of an interlaced frame, the first |
924 | line of the bottom field is the second line of that frame.</para> | 924 | line 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. |
981 | Applications may wish to prevent a device from capturing interlaced | 981 | Applications may wish to prevent a device from capturing interlaced |
982 | images because they will have "comb" or "feathering" artefacts around | 982 | images because they will have "comb" or "feathering" artefacts around |
983 | moving objects.</entry> | 983 | moving objects.</entry> |