Re: Fourcc for multiplanar formats

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On Monday 15 February 2010 17:27:46 Pawel Osciak wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we would like to ask for suggestions for new fourcc formats for multiplanar buffers.
> 
> There are planar formats in V4L2 API, but for all of them, each plane X "immediately
> follows Y plane in memory". We are in the process of testing formats and V4L2 extensions
> that relax those requirements and allow each plane to reside in a separate area of
> memory.
> 
> I am not sure how we should name those formats though. In our example, we are focusing
> on the following formats at the moment:
> - YCbCr 422 2-planar (multiplanar version of V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV16)
> - YCbCr 422 3-planar (multiplanar version of V4L2_PIX_FMT_YUV422P)
> - YCbCr 420 2-planar (multiplanar version of V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12)
> - YCbCr 420 3-planar (multiplanar version of V4L2_PIX_FMT_YUV420)
> 
> 
> Could anyone give any suggestions how we should name such formats and what to pass to
> the v4l2_fourcc() macro?

What about V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV16_2P, V4L2_PIX_FMT_YUV422P_3P, etc.?

What we pass to the fourcc macro is not very important IMHO. As long as it is unique.

Regards,

	Hans

> 
> 
> Best regards
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> Pawel Osciak
> Linux Platform Group
> Samsung Poland R&D Center
> 
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