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| .. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at |
| .. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst. |
| .. |
| .. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections |
| |
| .. _VIDEO_PLAY: |
| |
| ========== |
| VIDEO_PLAY |
| ========== |
| |
| Name |
| ---- |
| |
| VIDEO_PLAY |
| |
| .. attention:: This ioctl is deprecated. |
| |
| Synopsis |
| -------- |
| |
| .. c:function:: int ioctl(fd, VIDEO_PLAY) |
| :name: VIDEO_PLAY |
| |
| |
| Arguments |
| --------- |
| |
| .. flat-table:: |
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| :stub-columns: 0 |
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| |
| - .. row 1 |
| |
| - int fd |
| |
| - File descriptor returned by a previous call to open(). |
| |
| - .. row 2 |
| |
| - int request |
| |
| - Equals VIDEO_PLAY for this command. |
| |
| |
| Description |
| ----------- |
| |
| This ioctl is for Digital TV devices only. To control a V4L2 decoder use the |
| V4L2 :ref:`VIDIOC_DECODER_CMD` instead. |
| |
| This ioctl call asks the Video Device to start playing a video stream |
| from the selected source. |
| |
| |
| Return Value |
| ------------ |
| |
| On success 0 is returned, on error -1 and the ``errno`` variable is set |
| appropriately. The generic error codes are described at the |
| :ref:`Generic Error Codes <gen-errors>` chapter. |
