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1 <title>Codec Interface</title>
2
3 <note>
4 <title>Suspended</title>
5
6 <para>This interface has been be suspended from the V4L2 API
7implemented in Linux 2.6 until we have more experience with codec
8device interfaces.</para>
9 </note>
10
11 <para>A V4L2 codec can compress, decompress, transform, or otherwise
12convert video data from one format into another format, in memory.
13Applications send data to be converted to the driver through a
14&func-write; call, and receive the converted data through a
15&func-read; call. For efficiency a driver may also support streaming
16I/O.</para>
17
18 <para>[to do]</para>
19
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