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9 Streaming parameters are intended to optimize the video capture process
10 as well as I/O. Presently applications can request a high quality
11 capture mode with the :ref:`VIDIOC_S_PARM <VIDIOC_G_PARM>` ioctl.
13 The current video standard determines a nominal number of frames per
14 second. If less than this number of frames is to be captured or output,
15 applications can request frame skipping or duplicating on the driver
16 side. This is especially useful when using the
17 :ref:`read() <func-read>` or :ref:`write() <func-write>`, which are
18 not augmented by timestamps or sequence counters, and to avoid
19 unnecessary data copying.
21 Finally these ioctls can be used to determine the number of buffers used
22 internally by a driver in read/write mode. For implications see the
23 section discussing the :ref:`read() <func-read>` function.
25 To get and set the streaming parameters applications call the
26 :ref:`VIDIOC_G_PARM <VIDIOC_G_PARM>` and
27 :ref:`VIDIOC_S_PARM <VIDIOC_G_PARM>` ioctl, respectively. They take
28 a pointer to a struct :c:type:`v4l2_streamparm`, which
29 contains a union holding separate parameters for input and output
32 These ioctls are optional, drivers need not implement them. If so, they
33 return the ``EINVAL`` error code.