video-play.rst

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.. _VIDEO_PLAY:

VIDEO_PLAY
==========

Description
-----------

This ioctl is for DVB devices only. To control a V4L2 decoder use the
V4L2 :ref:`VIDIOC_DECODER_CMD` instead.

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

Synopsis
--------

.. c:function:: int ioctl(fd, int request = VIDEO_PLAY)

Arguments
----------



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       -  int fd

       -  File descriptor returned by a previous call to open().

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       -  int request

       -  Equals VIDEO_PLAY for this command.


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
:ref:`Generic Error Codes <gen-errors>` chapter.