drivers/media/test-drivers/vicodec

Vicodec Virtual Video Codec Test Driver

A purely software, virtual codec built into the kernel's media test-drivers tree. It pretends to be an encoder/decoder device so that developers can test the V4L2 codec interfaces, userspace tools, and applications like GStreamer or FFmpeg without requiring actual codec silicon.

not-a-driver conf=1.00 deploy=none replacement=none subsystem=media category=not-a-driver

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This is not actually a hardware driver; it is a synthetic Video4Linux2 codec used by kernel developers and the v4l-utils test suite to exercise the stateful and stateless codec APIs without needing real encoder or decoder hardware. It belongs to the media subsystem's test-drivers collection and exists purely for development and continuous integration purposes.

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monthly commits · 2021-04-21 → 2026-04-21 · 24 total · active in 15/61 months

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codex reasoning notes (technical)

Not a driver directory: V4L2 test/virtual codec under media test-drivers, used as a synthetic/test driver rather than a hardware-bound production device driver.