Re: impostor yv12

Hi,

> In short the YV12 format is not the format that mplayer claims it is.
> YV12 is in fact YVU / YCrCb /, that is in no way the default MPEG standart
> color format. As you know in MPEG 0,1,2,3 blocks are Y, Cb is #4 block, Cr
> is #5 block.
> Yes, I know that all code over mplayer-g1 use IMGFMT_YV12 as YUV, but in
> fact this format is the I420 or IYUV format. The real conversion is done

probably time for you to read docs/tech/colorspaces.txt

YV12 is really Y, V, U plane order in memory, _if_ you have aligned planes.
although mplayer handles EVERY planar yuv formats (be it yv12, i420, iyuv,
y422, yvu9 etc) as array[3] of planes, where 0=Y 1=U 2=V always!

if you have 3 pointers, it doesnt matter if you call it yv12 or iyuv, it's
still planar yuv and planes[1] is always points to U plane wherever it is.
it only does matter, when you have single pointer only, and u+v are
calculated internally (in codec dll, for example) from the y pointer by
adding w*h and w*h*5/4 (this is the case with vfw/dshow, which uses single
pointer)

> at vo_xv (in draw_slice around line 488). Same for vo_directx and probably
> all that support planar formats. I should say that now I see the reason
> mplayer to have always U as plane[1] and V as plane[2].
> 
> Well, I don't want to change all IMGFMT_YV12 to I420, or to IMGFMT_YUV,

huh?
i cant see why do you want/need to change it.

> as it is a too global change. But we should make G2 in the right way.

???


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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