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-rw-r--r--Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions1
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
index 822d6730e7d2..ebc05ce74bdf 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
@@ -127,6 +127,14 @@ one until ``EINVAL`` is returned.
- This format is not native to the device but emulated through
software (usually libv4l2), where possible try to use a native
format instead for better performance.
+ * - ``V4L2_FMT_FLAG_CONTINUOUS_BYTESTREAM``
+ - 0x0004
+ - The hardware decoder for this compressed bytestream format (aka coded
+ format) is capable of parsing a continuous bytestream. Applications do
+ not need to parse the bytestream themselves to find the boundaries
+ between frames/fields. This flag can only be used in combination with
+ the ``V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED`` flag, since this applies to compressed
+ formats only. This flag is valid for stateful decoders only.
Return Value
diff --git a/Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions b/Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
index 8e7d3492d248..a0640b6d0f68 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
+++ b/Documentation/media/videodev2.h.rst.exceptions
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ replace define V4L2_PIX_FMT_FLAG_PREMUL_ALPHA reserved-formats
# V4L2 format flags
replace define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED fmtdesc-flags
replace define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_EMULATED fmtdesc-flags
+replace define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_CONTINUOUS_BYTESTREAM fmtdesc-flags
# V4L2 timecode types
replace define V4L2_TC_TYPE_24FPS timecode-type