documented header

hve.h

@@ -9,6 +9,19 @@
  *
  */
 
+/**
+ ******************************************************************************
+ *
+ *  \mainpage HVE documentation
+ *  \see https://github.com/bmegli/hardware-video-encoder
+ * 
+ *  \copyright  Copyright (C) 2019 Bartosz Meglicki
+ *  \file       hve.h
+ *  \brief      Library public interface header
+ *
+ ******************************************************************************
+ */
+
 #ifndef HVE_H
 #define HVE_H
 
@@ -18,10 +31,22 @@ extern "C" {
 
 #include <libavcodec/avcodec.h>
 
-// internal library data passed to all functions
+/** \addtogroup interface Public interface
+ *  @{
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @struct hve
+ * @brief Internal library data passed around by the user.
+ * @see hve_init, hve_close
+ */
 struct hve;
 
-// configuration of hardware encoder used for initialization
+/**
+ * @struct hve_config
+ * @brief Encoder configuration.
+ * @see hve_init
+ */
 struct hve_config
 {
 	int width;
@@ -30,24 +55,128 @@ struct hve_config
 	const char *device; //NULL or device, e.g. "/dev/dri/renderD128"
 };
 
+/**
+ * @struct hve_frame
+ * @brief Data to be encoded (single frame).
+ * 
+ * Fill linsize array with stride (width and padding) of the data in bytes.
+ * Fill data with pointers to the data (no copying is needed).
+ * 
+ * Pass the result to hve_send_frame.
+ * 
+ * @see hve_send_frame
+ */
 struct hve_frame
 {
 	uint8_t *data[AV_NUM_DATA_POINTERS];
 	int linesize[AV_NUM_DATA_POINTERS];
 };
 
+
+/**
+  * @brief Constants returned by most of library functions
+  */
 enum hve_retval_enum
 {
 	HVE_ERROR=-1, //!< error occured with errno set
 	HVE_OK=0, //!< succesfull execution
 };
 
+/**
+ * @brief initialize internal library data.
+ * @param config encoder configuration
+ * @return
+ * - pointer to internal library data 
+ * - NULL on error, errors printed to stderr
+ * 
+ * @see hve_config, hve_close
+ */
 struct hve *hve_init(const struct hve_config *config);
+
+/**
+ * @brief free library resources
+ *
+ * Cleans and frees memory
+ *
+ * @param h pointer to internal library data
+ * 
+ */
 void hve_close(struct hve* h);
 
+/**
+ * @brief Send frame to hardware for encoding.
+ * 
+ * Call this for each frame you want to encode.
+ * Follow with hve_receive_packet to get encoded data from hardware.
+ * Call with NULL frame argument to flush the encoder when you want to finish encoding.
+ * After flushing follow with hve_receive_packet to get last encoded frames.
+ * After flushing it is not possible to reuse the encoder.
+ *   
+ * Example flushing:
+ * @code
+ *  if( hve_send_frame(hardware_encoder, NULL) != HVE_OK)
+ *		break; //break on error	
+ * 
+ *	while( (packet=hve_receive_packet(hardware_encoder, &failed)) )
+ *	{
+ *		//do something with packet->datag, packet->size 
+ *	}
+ *	
+ *	//NULL packet and non-zero failed indicates failure during encoding
+ *	if(failed) 
+ *		break; //break on error
+ * @endcode 
+ * 
+ * Perfomance hints: 
+ *  - don't copy data from your source, just pass the pointers to data planes
+ * 
+ * @param h pointer to internal library data
+ * @param frame data to encode
+ * @return 
+ * - HVE_OK on success
+ * - HVE_ERROR indicates error
+ * 
+ * @see hve_frame, hve_receive_packet
+ */
 int hve_send_frame(struct hve *h,struct hve_frame *frame);
+
+
+/**
+ * @brief Retrieve encoded frame data from hardware.
+ * 
+ * Keep calling this functions after hve_send_frame until NULL is returned.
+ * The ownership of returned AVPacket remains with the library:
+ * - consume it immidiately
+ * - or copy the data
+ *   
+ * Example:
+ * @code
+ *  if( hve_send_frame(hardware_encoder, &frame) != HVE_OK)
+ *		break; //break on error	
+ * 
+ *	while( (packet=hve_receive_packet(hardware_encoder, &failed)) )
+ *	{
+ *		//do something with packet->data, packet->size 
+ *	}
+ *	
+ *	//NULL packet and non-zero failed indicates failure during encoding
+ *	if(failed) 
+ *		break; //break on error
+ *
+ * @endcode
+ * 
+ * @param h pointer to internal library data
+ * @param error pointer to error code
+ * @return 
+ * - AVPacket * pointer to FFMpeg AVPacket, you are mainly interested in data and size parameters
+ * - NULL when no more data is pending, query error parameter to check result (HVE_OK on success)
+ * 
+ * @see hve_send_frame
+ */
 AVPacket *hve_receive_packet(struct hve *h, int *error);
 
+/** @}*/
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif