[FFmpeg-cvslog] doc/indevs: Note improved behaviour of kmsgrab with Linux 5.7
Mark Thompson
git at videolan.org
Sun Aug 9 23:32:11 EEST 2020
ffmpeg | branch: master | Mark Thompson <sw at jkqxz.net> | Sun Jul 5 16:49:46 2020 +0100| [991daf3895cf2c322e288f015ae8d5ef0d3b45f3] | committer: Mark Thompson
doc/indevs: Note improved behaviour of kmsgrab with Linux 5.7
> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=991daf3895cf2c322e288f015ae8d5ef0d3b45f3
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doc/indevs.texi | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/indevs.texi b/doc/indevs.texi
index 0f33fc66d8..4d2312e201 100644
--- a/doc/indevs.texi
+++ b/doc/indevs.texi
@@ -889,11 +889,15 @@ If you don't understand what all of that means, you probably don't want this. L
DRM device to capture on. Defaults to @option{/dev/dri/card0}.
@item format
-Pixel format of the framebuffer. Defaults to @option{bgr0}.
+Pixel format of the framebuffer. This can be autodetected if you are running Linux 5.7
+or later, but needs to be provided for earlier versions. Defaults to @option{bgr0},
+which is the most common format used by the Linux console and Xorg X server.
@item format_modifier
Format modifier to signal on output frames. This is necessary to import correctly into
-some APIs, but can't be autodetected. See the libdrm documentation for possible values.
+some APIs. It can be autodetected if you are running Linux 5.7 or later, but will need
+to be provided explicitly when needed in earlier versions. See the libdrm documentation
+for possible values.
@item crtc_id
KMS CRTC ID to define the capture source. The first active plane on the given CRTC
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