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    media: visl: add virtual stateless decoder driver · 0c078e31
    Daniel Almeida authored
    A virtual stateless device for stateless uAPI development purposes.
    
    This tool's objective is to help the development and testing of
    userspace applications that use the V4L2 stateless API to decode media.
    
    A userspace implementation can use visl to run a decoding loop even when
    no hardware is available or when the kernel uAPI for the codec has not
    been upstreamed yet. This can reveal bugs at an early stage.
    
    This driver can also trace the contents of the V4L2 controls submitted
    to it.  It can also dump the contents of the vb2 buffers through a
    debugfs interface. This is in many ways similar to the tracing
    infrastructure available for other popular encode/decode APIs out there
    and can help develop a userspace application by using another (working)
    one as a reference.
    
    Note that no actual decoding of video frames is performed by visl. The
    V4L2 test pattern generator is used to write various debug information
    to the capture buffers instead.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
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