Hi Prabhakar, On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:27:55AM +0530, Prabhakar Lad wrote: ... > + <row id="v4l2-dpcm-predictor"> > + <entry spanname="descr"> Differential pulse-code modulation (DPCM) > compression can > + be used to compress the samples into fewer bits than they would > otherwise require. > + This is done by calculating the difference between consecutive > samples and outputting > + the difference which in average is much smaller than the values of > the samples > + themselves since there is generally lots of correlation between > adjacent pixels. In > + decompression the original samples are reconstructed. The process > isn't lossless as > + the encoded sample size in bits is less than the original. > + > + <para>Formats using DPCM compression include <xref > linkend="pixfmt-srggb10dpcm8" />.</para> > + > + <para>This control is used to select the predictor used to encode > the samples.</para> > + > + <para>The main difference between the simple and the advanced > predictors is image quality, > + with advanced predictor supposed to produce better quality images > as a result. Simple > + predictor can be used e.g. for testing purposes. For more > information about DPCM see <ulink > + > url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_pulse-code_modulation";>Wikipedia</ulink>.</para>
Could you fit the above text (description of the control) at 80 characters per line? With that change, Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ai...@iki.fi> Kind regards, -- Sakari Ailus e-mail: sakari.ai...@iki.fi XMPP: sai...@retiisi.org.uk -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
