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NAME

       isodump - format of IEEE 1394 isochronous packets dump file

DESCRIPTION

       The  isodump  format  stores  a  series of IEEE 1394 isochronous stream
       packets (possibly from multiple  channels),  including  their  headers.
       Its main use is as the output format of dumpiso(1) and the input format
       of sendiso(1).

       The 32 byte header starts at offset 0 with the string "1394 isodump v1"
       followed  by  a  zero  byte.  The next 8 bytes form a 64 bit big endian
       integer, which represents a bit mask of the channels that were  dumped.
       A  set  bit  at  position  (1  << x) signifies that channel x was being
       listened on.  The following 8 bytes are set to zero.

       The iso packets follow the header and are appended to the  data  stream
       in  the  order  they  were received.  The packets consist of the header
       quadlet  as  originally  received  and  the  data  quadlets   following
       directly.   The  CRC  quadlets  after header and data do not appear and
       everything is in big endian, as seen on the bus.

       There is no further framing  of  the  packets  in  the  format,  packet
       boundaries can be found by looking at the data size field in the header
       quadlet of each packet.  The  data  size  field  appears  in  the  most
       significant  16  bits  of the header quadlet, contain the size in bytes
       (the actual packet is padded to a multiple of four bytes)  and  do  not
       include the header packet.

COMPATIBILITY

       This format was introduced with the iso send and dump tools distributed
       with libraw1394.  No one else uses it so far.

SEE ALSO

       sendiso(1), dumpiso(1)

AUTHOR

       Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>