linux/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/yuv-formats.rst

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.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
.. _yuv-formats:
***********
YUV Formats
***********
YUV is the format native to TV broadcast and composite video signals. It
separates the brightness information (Y) from the color information (U
and V or Cb and Cr). The color information consists of red and blue
*color difference* signals, this way the green component can be
reconstructed by subtracting from the brightness component. See
:ref:`colorspaces` for conversion examples. YUV was chosen because
early television would only transmit brightness information. To add
color in a way compatible with existing receivers a new signal carrier
was added to transmit the color difference signals. Secondary in the YUV
format the U and V components usually have lower resolution than the Y
component. This is an analog video compression technique taking
advantage of a property of the human visual system, being more sensitive
to brightness information.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
pixfmt-packed-yuv
pixfmt-grey
pixfmt-y10
pixfmt-y12
pixfmt-y14
pixfmt-y10b
pixfmt-y10p
pixfmt-y16
pixfmt-y16-be
pixfmt-y8i
pixfmt-y12i
pixfmt-uv8
pixfmt-yuyv
pixfmt-uyvy
pixfmt-yvyu
pixfmt-vyuy
pixfmt-y41p
pixfmt-yuv420
pixfmt-yuv420m
pixfmt-yuv422m
pixfmt-yuv444m
pixfmt-yuv410
pixfmt-yuv422p
pixfmt-yuv411p
pixfmt-nv12
pixfmt-nv12m
pixfmt-nv12mt
pixfmt-nv16
pixfmt-nv16m
pixfmt-nv24
pixfmt-m420