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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+.. include:: <isonum.txt>
+
+Vaio Picturebook Motion Eye Camera Driver
+=========================================
+
+Copyright |copy| 2001-2004 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
+
+Copyright |copy| 2001-2002 AlcĂ´ve <www.alcove.com>
+
+Copyright |copy| 2000 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
+
+Private API
+-----------
+
+The driver supports frame grabbing with the video4linux API,
+so all video4linux tools (like xawtv) should work with this driver.
+
+Besides the video4linux interface, the driver has a private interface
+for accessing the Motion Eye extended parameters (camera sharpness,
+agc, video framerate), the snapshot and the MJPEG capture facilities.
+
+This interface consists of several ioctls (prototypes and structures
+can be found in include/linux/meye.h):
+
+MEYEIOC_G_PARAMS and MEYEIOC_S_PARAMS
+ Get and set the extended parameters of the motion eye camera.
+ The user should always query the current parameters with
+ MEYEIOC_G_PARAMS, change what he likes and then issue the
+ MEYEIOC_S_PARAMS call (checking for -EINVAL). The extended
+ parameters are described by the meye_params structure.
+
+
+MEYEIOC_QBUF_CAPT
+ Queue a buffer for capture (the buffers must have been
+ obtained with a VIDIOCGMBUF call and mmap'ed by the
+ application). The argument to MEYEIOC_QBUF_CAPT is the
+ buffer number to queue (or -1 to end capture). The first
+ call to MEYEIOC_QBUF_CAPT starts the streaming capture.
+
+MEYEIOC_SYNC
+ Takes as an argument the buffer number you want to sync.
+ This ioctl blocks until the buffer is filled and ready
+ for the application to use. It returns the buffer size.
+
+MEYEIOC_STILLCAPT and MEYEIOC_STILLJCAPT
+ Takes a snapshot in an uncompressed or compressed jpeg format.
+ This ioctl blocks until the snapshot is done and returns (for
+ jpeg snapshot) the size of the image. The image data is
+ available from the first mmap'ed buffer.
+
+Look at the 'motioneye' application code for an actual example.