The v4l2 driver can silently change the pixel format in the

VIDIOC_S_FMT ioctl(). In this case, device_init() should fail so that
a different pixel format is tried.
Patch by Jens Rosenboom (jens DOT rosenboom AT eu DOT panasonic DOT com)

Originally committed as revision 15660 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

diff --git a/libavdevice/v4l2.c b/libavdevice/v4l2.c
index 699a982..d8d58f0 100644 (file)
--- a/libavdevice/v4l2.c
+++ b/libavdevice/v4l2.c
@@ -193,6 +193,11 @@ static int device_init(AVFormatContext *ctx, int *width, int *height, int pix_fm
         *height = fmt.fmt.pix.height;
     }
 
+    if (pix_fmt != fmt.fmt.pix.pixelformat) {
+        av_log(ctx, AV_LOG_DEBUG, "The V4L2 driver changed the pixel format from 0x%08X to 0x%08X\n", pix_fmt, fmt.fmt.pix.pixelformat);
+        res = -1;
+    }
+
     return res;
 }