gst_v4l2_dup() will now take care of setting
v4l2capture->no_initial_format and keep_aspect instead of doing it
manually.
Fix a typo as keep_aspect was set twice on v4l2output but never on
v4l2capture.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795028
libv4l2 does not prevent exporting DMABuf even when emulated formats are
in use. As a side effect, userspace ends up with buffers of the original
formats which will cause issues.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795097
BT2020_12 is not represented in V4L2, so drivers providing full colority
for BT2020 will set V4L2_XFER_FUNC_709 transfer function. To fix the
issue, we bump this to BT2020_12 if the resoltion is 4K, but we should
only do that if the colorspace is BT2020 to start with, otherwise it's
not possible to use normal BT709 for 4K 8bit formats.
So far we were only setting colorimetry for OUTPUT devices (v4l2sink or
m2m sink pad). This prevented selecting through caps negotiation the
colorimetry for CAPTURE devices (v4l2src or m2m src pad). This is rarely
selectable, but trying is harmless.
The g_list_insert_sorted() will behave like prepend when the compare
function returns 0. In our case, we want to maintain the order hence
append. This fixes this issue and improve the sorting algorithm to make
a 10x10 prefered over 10x200 with a preference of 10x8 (and similar
cases which was badly handled). This fixes generally fixes issue were a
sub-optimal format / size is picked.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792435
This implements a "big hammer" reallocation method. We effectively
drain and stop both side of the decoder and restart. This though is
the most generic method. This change should enable on most drivers
adaptive streaming.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752962
This is problematic in the current design at it seriously slow down
startup of applications. As of now, no known application uses the
colorimetry and the interlace-modes for anything (the two fields that
won't be probed). So let's disable it, in the long term we'll try and
find a way to interact with the provider so applicaiton could opt-in
these slow probing methods for more advance configuration.
The difference between mmap and mmap64 is the type of 'offset' argument.
mmap64 always uses a 64-bit interger as offset, while mmap uses off_t,
whose size can vary on different operating systems or architectures.
However, not all operating systems support mmap64. Fortunately, although
FreeBSD only has mmap, its off_t is always 64-bit regardless of
architectures, so we can simply use mmap when sizeof(off_t) == 8.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791779
This way we can pass the pad name instead of the element for tracing
which helps identifying which v4l2object is used withing M2M element
like decoder, encoder and transform. For the reference, pads are name
<parent-name>:<pad-name>.
Commit 1f31715c98 ("v4l2videodec: use visible size, not coded size,
for downstream negotiation filter") added support for removing the
padding obtained as the difference between width/height from G_FMT and
visible width/height from G_SELECTION from the probed caps obtained
via TRY_FMT.
This patch fixes the padding removal for drivers that only round up
height, but not width, to the padded frame size. This might happen
because horizontal padding can be handled by line stride (bytesperline),
but there is no such thing as plane stride in the V4L2 API for
single-buffer planar formats.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791271
In MPLANE mode, the driver may set data_offset, which represent some
padding at the start of the buffer used internally. This portion of the
data need to be skipped, though it is included in bytesused.
This patch removes frame size sanity check as the method used will no
longer work. This check was simply there to help detect broken kernel
drivers. It would be re-implement by estimating the plane size, which is
not totally trivial and may be too much work for a simple debug check.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733501
Issue an invalid VIDIOC_EXPBUF ioctl to the driver to check if the
driver supports dmabuf export. If the driver does not implement the
IOCTL, the error is ENOTTY. Any other error codes mean that the driver
implements VIDIOC_EXPBUF.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779466
The purpose of being able to flush the buffer pool is only to
unlock any blocked operation. Doing streamoff/streamon had the
side effect of turning off and on the camera. As we do a flush_start
/ flush_stop sequence when shutting down, that would cause a really
quick sequence of streamoff/streamon/streamoff/close which was
causing some cameras to stop working.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783945
The code relied on the list compare function to fixate the caps
but if the caps only has one structure, the compare function will
never get called. Capture device for which there is only one
structure in the caps would then get some assertion and later
fail badly.
Instead, fixate before inserting into the list and split the reading
and the fixation of the structures.
try_fmt will update the caps colorimetry and interlace-mode. Before this
call, those field are missing. The caps equality check was always
failing when a spurious reconfigure event was received.
These have been copy pasted all over the place and are not used anymore.
All object have it's own category now. This fixes build warning since
the VP9 decoder had vp8 category declared.
Whenever we import from downstream pool (userptr or dmabuf-import), we
should copy over the flags and timestamp, otherwise downstream will not
get proper synchronization or will not be able to notice frames that has
corruption in it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785680
Removes the FIXME/Question in the buffer pool and add a ref to the
element in the GstAllocator too. This ref is strictly required to keep
the GstV4l2Object structure around.
The library has started preventing a lot of interesting use cases,
like CREATE_BUFS, DMABuf, usage of TRY_FMT. As the libv4l2 is totally
inactive and not maintained, we decided to disable it. As a convenience
we added a run-time environment that let you enable it for testing.
GST_V4L2_USE_LIBV4L2=1
This of course only works if you have enabled libv4l2 at build time.
While not documented, gst_video_colorimetry_matches() only accepts well
known names. Looking at the code and unit test, this seems to be on
purpose, so fixing by parsing the string and compating the colorimetry
structures.
The subclass negotiated function will call set_format, if that fails the
pool will not be created. We ended up with an assertion.
GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_buffer_pool_set_active: assertion 'GST_IS_BUFFER_POOL (pool)' failed
In this commit, we enabled skip_try_fmt_probes quirk in order to speed
up the start which is known to be disastrously slow with certain USB
cameras.
This has the side effect that we needed to rewrite the entire
negotiation process in a way that we iterate over the possible caps
until we find one that works.
The new negotiation method consist of extracting a preferred structure
from the peer caps and using this to fixate and sort the caps. To
reflect the old behaviour, we sort all resolution strictly bigger
to the preferred one with the closes one first. The rest is appended,
keeping the same order. We then normalize the caps in case there was
some list of interlace-mode or colorimetry left. We finally iterate
over all fixed caps and try it. 99% of the time, the first or the
second one should work, whit the result of a single S_FMT being issues.
From there, it will be relatively easy to introduce new negotiation
algorithm. The current algorithm is made for optimal image quality
with a scaling sink that sets it's window resolution as preference.
This the case if for:
v4l2src ! videoconvert ! videoscale ! ximagesink
Other strategy would be needed to optimize for non-scaling sink like
ximagesink or kmssink when the driver does not scale.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785156
skip_try_fmt_probes quirk is set, V4L2 object will not probe for
interlace-mode and colorimetry to avoid relying on try_fmt. This quirk
will be used by v4l2src to avoid desastrous startup time with slow
USB webcams.
When this quirk is enabled, caller will have to iterate over the
negotiated caps as it may contains unsupported formats. If the peer
didn't choose a specific interlace-mode, or colorimetry, the value
chosen by the driver is set into the caps. For this reason, when this
mode is enabled, gst_v4l2_object_set_format() will require writable
caps.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785156
According to the spec,TRY_FMT cannot return EBUSY, though it can
return EINVAL if it was not possible to update the format to
something supported.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785156
This is in preparation for removing slow TRY_FMT probes for
colorimetry. As we won't have tried that colorimetry we cannot
assume the driver will accept it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785156
This is in preparation from removing the slow TRY_FMT probes for
interlacing. As we won't have tried that interlace-mode already
we need to validate that the driver isn't refusing it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785156
Add a couple of useful debug traces , they happened to be useful to
debug/investigate a 4K video playback issue with v4l2, so let's make these
changes more permanent.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785109
Since 1.6, the transfer function for BT2020 has been changed from BT709
to BT2020_12. It's the same function, but with more precision. As a side
effect, the V4L2 colorpsace didn't match GStreamer colorspace. When
GStreamer ended up making a guess, it would not match anything supported
by V4L2 anymore. This this by using BT2020_12 for BT2020 colorspace and
BT2020 transfer function in replacement of BT709 whenever a 4K
resolution is detected.
The pixel aspect ratio is documented to not change unless the TV
Standard is changed. So this mean that this will be uniform across all
possible format and resolutions.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784674
First step of a larger cleanup, all function from v4l2_calls are in fact
methods on GstV4l2Object. This split makes the code really confusing.
This also remove no longer unused macros.
Before that, each m2m node would be wrapped as a single, multi-format
decoder element. As a unique name was needed, we where using the device
name, which changes between re-boots. This led to unpredictable element
names. In this patch, we generate an element per codec, using
v4l2<codec>dec name. If there is multiple decoder for the same format,
the following elements will be named v4l2<node><codec>dec.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784908
When resurrecting a buffer, the subsequent free call can result
in the group-released handler being called again, which causes
a recursive loop. This patch blocks the signal handler during
the time that it executes, ensuring that the loop will not occur.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759292
Increasing this number fix a buffer starvation problem I'm hitting
with a "v4l2src ! kmssink" pipeline.
kmssink requests 2 buffer as it keeps a reference on the last rendered
one. So we were allocating 3 buffers for the pipeline.
Once the first 2 buffers have been pushed we ended up with:
- one buffer queued in v4l2
- one being pushed
- one kept as last rendered
If this 3rd buffer is released after that v4l2 used the first one to
capture we end up with a buffer starvation problem as no buffer is currently
queued in v4l2 for capture.
Fixing this by adding one extra buffer to the pipeline so when one
buffer is being pushed downstream the other can already be queued to
capture the next frame.
We were already adding 3 buffers if downstream didn't reply to the
allocation query. I reduced this number to 2 to compensate the extra
buffer which is now always added.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783049
This patch fixes a memory leak that is caused if the dmabuf file
descriptor dup fails. Previously, _cleanup_failed_alloc() would
not unref the memory because mems_allocated had not yet been
incremented.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784302
When upstream does no use the v4l2videoenc pool, we need to activate
that internal pool. Though, we relied the driver to provide a minimum
required buffer, which Qualcomm Venus driver don't currently provide.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783361
This implements H264 encoding support using generic V4L2 interface. It is
reported to work with Samsung MFC driver, IXM.6 CODA driver and
Qualcomm mainline Venus driver. Other platform should be supported as
none of this work is platform specific.
The implementation consist of a GstV4l2VideoEnc base class, which
implements the core streaming functionality. This base class is implemented
by GstV4l2H264Enc class that implements the caps negotiation specific to
H264 profiles and level. This implementation supports hardware with multiple
H264 encoder. Though, to make it simplier to use, the first discovered H264
encoder will be named v4l2h264enc. Other encoder found during discovery will
have a unique name like v4l2video0h264enc.
This work is the combined work of multiple developpers in the last 3
years. Thanks to all of the contributors:
Ayaka <ayaka@soulik.info>
Frédéric Sureau <frederic.sureau@vodalys.com>
Jean-Michel Hautbois <jean-michel.hautbois@veo-labs.com>
Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Pablo Anton <pablo.anton@vodalys-labs.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728438
This is needed for V4L2_OUTPUT interface, and is harmless of
V4L2_CAPTURE interfaces. This will fix timestamp in cases like:
v4l2src io-mode=dmabuf ! v4l2videoNenc output-io-mode=dmabuf-import ! ...
Same apply for userptr.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781119
Running `gst-validate-launcher -t validate.file.playback.change_state_intensive.vorbis_vp8_1_webm`
on odroid XU4 (s5p-mfc v4l2 driver) often leads to:
ERROR:../subprojects/gst-plugins-good/sys/v4l2/gstv4l2videodec.c:215:gst_v4l2_video_dec_stop: assertion failed: (g_atomic_int_get (&self->processing) == FALSE)
This happens when the following race happens:
- T0: Main thread
- T1: Upstream streaming thread
- T2. v4l2dec processing thread)
[The decoder is in PAUSED state]
T0. The validate scenario runs `Executing (36/40) set-state: state=null repeat=40`
T1- The decoder handles a frame
T2- A decoded frame is push downstream
T2- Downstream returns FLUSHING as it is already flushing changing state
T2- The decoder stops its processing thread and sets `->processing = FALSE`
T1- The decoder handles another frame
T1- `->process` is FALSE so the decoder restarts its streaming thread
T0- In v4l2dec-> stop the processing thread is stopped
NOTE: At this point the processing thread loop never started.
T0- assertion failed: (g_atomic_int_get (&self->processing) == FALSE)
Here I am removing the whole ->processing logic to base it all on the
GstTask state to avoid duplicating the knowledge.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778830
Without a specified framerate from the sink, the decoder frame interval
should be set using the framerate of the encoded video stream.
Therefore, the v4l2object should be able to change the framerate on the
output if the V4L2 device accepts it.
This is also necessary for mem2mem encoders so that their bitrate
calculation code may work correctly and they may report the correct
frame duration on the capture queue.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779466
If the duration of the v4l2object is GST_CLOCK_TIME_NONE, because the
sink did not specify a framerate in the caps and the driver accepts the
framerate, the decoder element uses GST_CLOCK_TIME_NONE to calculate and
set the element latency.
While this is a bug of the capture driver, the decoder element should
not use the invalid duration to calculate a latency, but print a warning
instead.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779466
The correct behaviour of anything stuck in the ->render() function
between ->unlock() and ->unlock_stop() is to call
gst_base_sink_wait_preroll() and only return an error if this returns an
error, otherwise, it must continue where it left off!
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774945
Update the image size according the amount of data we are going to
read/write. This workaround bugs in driver where the sizeimage provided
by TRY/S_FMT represent the buffer length (maximum size) rather then the expected
bytesused (buffer size).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775564
Set MAY_BE_LEAKED flag on static pads returned by gst_v4l2_object_get_*_caps()
functions. Made functions thread safe by using g_once_init[enter|leave]
funtions.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778453
In gst_v4l2_allocator_qbuf(), the memory is referenced after the
buffer is queued. Once queued (VIDIOC_QBUF), the buffer might be handled
by the V4L2 driver (e.g. decoded) and dequeued (gst_v4l2_allocator_dqbuf),
through a different thread, before the memory is referenced (gst_memory_ref).
In this case, in gst_v4l2_allocator_dqbuf(), the memory is unreferenced
(gst_memory_unref) before having been referenced: the memory refcount
reaches 0, and the memory is freed.
So, to avoid this crossing case, in gst_v4l2_allocator_qbuf(), the
memory shall be referenced before the buffer is queued.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777399
Unlike former definitions of LOG_CAPS, the current implementation simply
expands to GST_DEBUG_OBJECT. The LOG_CAPS macro is rarely used and most
uses duplicate already existing GST_DEBUG_OBJECT lines. Therefore, the
caps are often printed twice which unnecessarily clutters the debug log.
Replace LOG_CAPS calls with GST_DEBUG_OBJECT, remove LOG_CAPS calls, and
delete the definition of LOG_CAPS.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776899
The buffer memory type provided to the VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS ioctl shall
be set with the value ("memory") given as input parameter of the
gst_v4l2_allocator_probe() function.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777327
After commit 1ea9735a I see these error while using the webcam
integrated in my laptop:
GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_value_list_get_size: assertion 'GST_VALUE_HOLDS_LIST (value)' failed
The issue is gst_v4l2src_value_simplify() was doing its job of
generating a single value, rather than the original list. That why,
when getting the list size, a critical warning was raised.
This patch takes advantage of the compiler optimizations to verify
first if the list was simplified, thus use it directly, otherwise,
if it is a list, verify its size.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776106
If for some reason we fail to probe formats (all try_fmt calls fail, for
example), this is not a critical error, but we end up with an empty list
of interlace modes. This causes all subsequent negotiation to fail.
This patch fixes interlace-mode setting to be skipped if we failed to
detect any.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775702
These can be called from different threads and both manipulate the
pool->buffers array. Lock them properly and let flush_stop move the
array contents into a temporary array on the stack to avoid having
to call release_buffer under the object lock.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775015
If the pool is inactive, it is guaranteed to also be flushing, so the
following check will return GST_FLOW_FLUSHING anyway.
This can happen if a v4l2src is blocking on DQBUF in create and is sent
an EOS event on another thread. In that case the pool is set to
flushing/inactive without locking, the v4l2src is unblocked, and may
call pool_process with a valid buffer on the already inactive pool.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775014
I've seen problems where the `bytesused` field of `v4l2_buffer` would be
a silly number causing the later call to:
gst_memory_resize (group->mem[i], 0, group->planes[i].bytesused);
to result in this error to be printed:
(pulsevideo:11): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_memory_resize: assertion 'size + mem->offset + offset <= mem->maxsize' failed
besides causing who-knows what other problems.
We make the assumption that this buffer has still been dequeued correctly
so just clamp to a valid size so downstream elements won't end up in
undefined behaviour.
The invalid `v4l2_buffer` I saw from my capture device was:
buffer = {
index = 0,
type = 1,
bytesused = 534748928, // <- Invalid
flags = 8260, // V4L2_BUF_FLAG_TIMESTAMP_MONOTONIC | V4L2_BUF_FLAG_ERROR | V4L2_BUF_FLAG_DONE
field = 01330, // <- Invalid
timestamp = {
tv_sec = 0,
tv_usec = 0
},
timecode = {
type = 0,
flags = 0,
frames = 0 '\000',
seconds = 0 '\000',
minutes = 0 '\000',
hours = 0 '\000',
userbits = "\000\000\000"
},
sequence = 0,
memory = 2,
m = {
offset = 3537219584,
userptr = 140706665836544, // Could be nonsense, not sure
planes = 0x7ff8d2d5b000,
fd = -757747712
},
length = 2764800,
reserved2 = 0,
reserved = 0
}
This is from gdb with my own annotations added.
This was with gst-plugins-good 1.8.1, a Magewell XI100DUSB-HDMI video
capture device and kernel 3.13 using a dodgy HDMI cable which is great at
breaking HDMI capture devices. I'm using io-mode=userptr and have built
gst-plugins-good without libv4l.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769765
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson
With contributions from:
Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com>
Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> (original port)
Highlights of the features provided are:
* Faster builds on Linux (~40-50% faster)
* The ability to build with MSVC on Windows
* Generate Visual Studio project files
* Generate XCode project files
* Much faster builds on Windows (on-par with Linux)
* Seriously fast configure and building on embedded
... and many more. For more details see:
http://blog.nirbheek.in/2016/05/gstreamer-and-meson-new-hope.htmlhttp://blog.nirbheek.in/2016/07/building-and-developing-gstreamer-using.html
Building with Meson should work on both Linux and Windows, but may
need a few more tweaks on other operating systems.
Both work with autotools but they definitely don't mean the same thing, cause
problems with other build systems, and are bad form. Existence should always be
checked with #ifdef or #if defined.
The type detection would lead to assertion as it would try
to create a device without having found any type for it. It
also didn't detect MPLANE devices properly.
The monitor sets the object->element object as a GstObject. This
works for debug traces, but will assert for ELEMENT_ERROR. This
was the only case where that could happen. Add a check for that.
After switching to using V4L2_CAP_DEVICE_CAPS we lost support for
multiplanar device types. After some research, it looks like
vcap.capabilities treated the multiplanar flag of output and capture
devices equally, but not the new device_caps.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768195
A typo in gst_v4l2_probe_and_register() caused a build error when building
with --enable-v4l2-probe. Fixing it.
gstv4l2.c: In function 'gst_v4l2_probe_and_register':
gstv4l2.c:150:25: error: 'struct v4l2_capability' has no member named 'capabilitites'
device_caps = vcap.capabilitites;
The same physical device can export multiple devices. In
this case, the capabilities field now contains a union of
all caps available from all exported V4L2 devices alongside
a V4L2_CAP_DEVICE_CAPS flag that should be used to decide
what capabilities to consider. In our case, we need the
ones from the exported device we are using.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768195
gst_v4l2_clear_error() doesn't work like g_clear_error(), it
doesn't NULLify the pointer, so set freed debug string to NULL
so it doesn't get freed again if gst_v4l2_clear_error() is
called twice on the error.
CID 1362901
Instead of completely getting rid of the input buffer, copy
the metadata, the flags and the timestamp into an empty buffer.
This way the decoder base class can copy that information again
to the output buffer.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758424
This is to allow returning an error that can easily be sent as
message to the application if the element needs it. Using this
also allow ignoring errors.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766172
v4l2src will renegotiate only if the format have changed. As of now,
it's not possible to change the allocationw without resetting the
camera. To avoid unwanted side effect, simply keep the old allocation
if no renegotiation is taking place. This fixes assertion and possible
failures in USERPTR or DMABUF import mode (when using downstream pools).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754042
To change pixel aspect ratio from DAR to PAR, the necessary scaling factor
is DAR/PAR, not DAR*PAR.
For good measure, add debug output similar to the fixed-width and
fixed-height cases.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766711
Instead of relying on the default colorimetry chosen by
gst_video_info_set_format(), set info.colorimetry from the
values returned by G_FMT. This allows decoders to propagate
their input colorimetry downstream.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766383
Move the extraction of colorimetry parameters from struct v4l2_format and the
setting of the identity matrix for RGB formats into the function to avoid code
duplication.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766383
gst_v4l2_probe_caps() returns the coded size, not the visible size. Subtract
the known padding from probed caps with the coded size before using them as
filter for caps negotiation with downstream elements.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766382
The gst_v4l2_object_acquire_format() function is used by v4l2videodec to obtain
the currently set capture format. Since G_FMT returns the coded size, the
visible size needs to be obtained from the compose rectangle in order to
negotiate it with downstream elements. The G_CROP call hasn't worked on mem2mem
capture queues for a long time. Instead use the G_SELECTION call to obtain the
compose rectangle and only fall back to G_CROP for ancient kernels.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766381
On modern kernels, the G/S_FMT ioctls will always fail using
V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_OVERLAY with VFL_DIR_TX (e.g. real overlay out drivers)
since this is not the intented use (rather rx, according to v4l2 API doc).
Probably this is why the Video Output Overlay interface was created, so if
the driver advertises it we might as well use.
For old kernels (pre 2012) the old way might still work so keeping this for
compatibility.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761165
Support for the updated V4L2_PIX_FMT_XRGB555 was added in commit
2538fee2fd however, when setting the format
for use in v4l2 ioctls, the old deprecated format is still used. Convert
this to the new accepted format type, as the preferred format.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767300
