Warning to developers: rivatv driver does format conversion

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  Just a warning to V4L application developers, the rivatv capture
driver does format conversion from UYVY to everything else it claims to
support.  This answers part of the performance problems users of tvtime
were experiencing when using this driver, since we ask for YUY2, and the
driver converts.

  The author of the driver recommended I string compare on the driver
name to see if it's the rivatv driver, and if so, use UYVY (rather than
my suggestion of having the driver not falsely claim to support YUY2
even though it doesn't).

  I find it annoying that drivers exist that do format conversion,
especially when it's not too hard for my app to support UYVY, and avoid
these bug reports about poor performance.

-- 
Billy Biggs
vektor@xxxxxxxxxxxx





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