1 <refentry id="vidioc-streamon">
3 <refentrytitle>ioctl VIDIOC_STREAMON, VIDIOC_STREAMOFF</refentrytitle>
8 <refname>VIDIOC_STREAMON</refname>
9 <refname>VIDIOC_STREAMOFF</refname>
10 <refpurpose>Start or stop streaming I/O</refpurpose>
16 <funcdef>int <function>ioctl</function></funcdef>
17 <paramdef>int <parameter>fd</parameter></paramdef>
18 <paramdef>int <parameter>request</parameter></paramdef>
19 <paramdef>const int *<parameter>argp</parameter></paramdef>
25 <title>Arguments</title>
29 <term><parameter>fd</parameter></term>
35 <term><parameter>request</parameter></term>
37 <para>VIDIOC_STREAMON, VIDIOC_STREAMOFF</para>
41 <term><parameter>argp</parameter></term>
50 <title>Description</title>
52 <para>The <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMON</constant> and
53 <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMOFF</constant> ioctl start and stop the capture
54 or output process during streaming (<link linkend="mmap">memory
55 mapping</link> or <link linkend="userp">user pointer</link>) I/O.</para>
57 <para>Specifically the capture hardware is disabled and no input
58 buffers are filled (if there are any empty buffers in the incoming
59 queue) until <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMON</constant> has been called.
60 Accordingly the output hardware is disabled, no video signal is
61 produced until <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMON</constant> has been called.
62 The ioctl will succeed only when at least one output buffer is in the
63 incoming queue.</para>
65 <para>The <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMOFF</constant> ioctl, apart of
66 aborting or finishing any DMA in progress, unlocks any user pointer
67 buffers locked in physical memory, and it removes all buffers from the
68 incoming and outgoing queues. That means all images captured but not
69 dequeued yet will be lost, likewise all images enqueued for output but
70 not transmitted yet. I/O returns to the same state as after calling
71 &VIDIOC-REQBUFS; and can be restarted accordingly.</para>
73 <para>Both ioctls take a pointer to an integer, the desired buffer or
74 stream type. This is the same as &v4l2-requestbuffers;
75 <structfield>type</structfield>.</para>
77 <para>Note applications can be preempted for unknown periods right
78 before or after the <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMON</constant> or
79 <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMOFF</constant> calls, there is no notion of
80 starting or stopping "now". Buffer timestamps can be used to
81 synchronize with other events.</para>
89 <term><errorcode>EINVAL</errorcode></term>
91 <para>Streaming I/O is not supported, the buffer
92 <structfield>type</structfield> is not supported, or no buffers have
93 been allocated (memory mapping) or enqueued (output) yet.</para>
97 <term><errorcode>EPIPE</errorcode></term>
99 <para>The driver implements <link
100 linkend="pad-level-formats">pad-level format configuration</link> and
101 the pipeline configuration is invalid.
112 sgml-parent-document: "v4l2.sgml"
113 indent-tabs-mode: nil