7.1.2.5. VIDEO_PLAY

7.1.2.5.1. Name

VIDEO_PLAY

Attention

This ioctl is deprecated.

7.1.2.5.2. Synopsis

int ioctl(fd, VIDEO_PLAY)

7.1.2.5.3. Arguments

int fd	File descriptor returned by a previous call to open().
int request	Equals VIDEO_PLAY for this command.

7.1.2.5.4. Description

This ioctl is for DVB devices only. To control a V4L2 decoder use the V4L2 ioctl VIDIOC_DECODER_CMD, VIDIOC_TRY_DECODER_CMD instead.

This ioctl call asks the Video Device to start playing a video stream from the selected source.

7.1.2.5.5. 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 Generic Error Codes chapter.