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6Effect Devices Interface
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9 **Note**
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11 This interface has been be suspended from the V4L2 API implemented
12 in Linux 2.6 until we have more experience with effect device
13 interfaces.
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15A V4L2 video effect device can do image effects, filtering, or combine
16two or more images or image streams. For example video transitions or
17wipes. Applications send data to be processed and receive the result
18data either with :ref:`read() <func-read>` and
19:ref:`write() <func-write>` functions, or through the streaming I/O
20mechanism.
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26.. This file was automatically converted from DocBook-XML with the dbxml
27.. library (https://github.com/return42/sphkerneldoc). The origin XML comes
28.. from the linux kernel, refer to:
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30.. * https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/Documentation/DocBook
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