[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCHv12] libavcodec: v4l2: add support for v4l2 mem2mem codecs

[Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz]

On 09/19/2017 12:54 PM, wm4 wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:48:06 -0700
> Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz at linaro.org> wrote:
>
>>> I
>>> also assume the data flow issues got solved.
>> data flow?
> Wasn't there some confusion about how send/receive works, and how to
> connect it to how v4l2 data flow works?

ah yes, you are right. yes that was fixed as well (removing the timeouts when 
waiting for buffers).

>
> (Also could we replace all instances of v4l2 with v4l? The original v4l
> is dead AFAIK, and the 2 is redundant and confusing.)

do you mind if we keep the v4l2 (after all the API is called that way); just 
that v4l doesn't mean much anymore and it might create confusion to v4l2 developers
also notice that the kernel interface file is called videodev2.h.