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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-03-04 10:21:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-04-14 10:31:49 +0200 |
| commit | 54f38fcae536ea202ce7d6a359521492fba30c1f (patch) | |
| tree | dd1a2b36d8de0b13702f2716526ad3b91650e090 /Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/yuv-formats.rst | |
| parent | 5dfb8db56b273740a76e8687ee7efb4b2c0ec83b (diff) | |
| download | linux-54f38fcae536ea202ce7d6a359521492fba30c1f.tar.bz2 | |
media: docs: move uAPI book to userspace-api/media
Since 2017, there is an space reserved for userspace API,
created by changeset 1d596dee3862 ("docs: Create a user-space API guide").
As the media subsystem was one of the first subsystems to use
Sphinx, until this patch, we were keeping things on a separate
place.
Let's just use the new location, as having all uAPI altogether
will likely make things easier for developers.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/yuv-formats.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/yuv-formats.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8ee92d0cd769 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/yuv-formats.rst @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, +.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software +.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts +.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at +.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst. +.. +.. 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 |