On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, padawan12 wrote:
I'm not following this thread but nice explanation. So YUV in anything other than 4 4 4 is basically "compressed video" ?
Depends on who you ask, what's the meaning of "compression"... it's certainly "subsampled", as in, when people say DV is 720x480, that's not what it is for real, only the Y channel is like that, and the UV channels are in 360x480.
basically "444" is uncompressed, "422" has the UV in half-width, "411" has the UV in quarter-width, and "420" has the UV in both half-width and half-height.
if you're in 8 bits per value, then "444" is 24 bpp, "422" is 16 bpp, and the others are 12 bpp, but those "bits per pixel" are assuming a "pixel" is defined only in terms of the Y channel. If you do it only in terms of UV channels, then everything is reversed, as "444" is 24 bpp, "422" is 32 bpp, and the others are 48 bpp.
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