Media Framework - 2023.1 English

Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZCU106 Video Codec Unit Targeted Reference Design User Guide (UG1250)

Document ID
UG1250
Release Date
2023-05-16
Version
2023.1 English

The main goal of the media framework is to discover the device topology of a video pipeline and to configure it at run time. To achieve this, pipelines are modeled as an oriented graph of building blocks called entities connected through pads.

A pad is a connection endpoint through which an entity can interact with other entities. Data produced by an entity flows from the entity's output to one or more entity inputs. A link is a point-to-point oriented connection between two pads, either on the same entity or on different entities. Data flows from a source pad to a sink pad.

An entity is a basic media hardware building block. It can correspond to a large variety of blocks such as physical hardware devices (e.g., image sensors), logical hardware devices (e.g., soft IP cores inside the PL), DMA channels, or physical connectors. Physical or logical devices are modeled as subdevice nodes and DMA channels as video nodes.

A media device node is created that allows the user space application to configure the video pipeline and its subdevices through the libmediactl and libv4l2subdev libraries. The media controller API provides this functionality:

Enumerates entities, pads, and links

Configures pads

° Sets media bus format

° Sets dimensions (width/height)

Configures links

° Enable/disable

° Validates formats

This Figure shows the media graph for the SDI-RX, TPG, HDMI RX, and CSI RX video capture pipelines as generated by the media-ctl utility. The TPG subdevice is shown in white with its corresponding control interface address and subdevice node in the center. The numbers on the edges are pads and the solid arrows represent active links. The grey boxes are video nodes that correspond to Frame Buffer Write channels, in this case write channels (outputs).

Figure 3-3: Video Capture Media Pipelines from Left: SDI, TPG, HDMI RX, and CSI RX

X-Ref Target - Figure 3-3

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