CC'ing the linux-media mailing list. On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 02:10:58PM +0000, Simon Ser wrote: > Hi all, > > In the last few days I've been working on a small new project, pixfmtdb [1]. > It's a Web database of pixel format guides, it can be useful to understand > how pixels are laid out in memory for a given format and which formats from > various APIs are compatible with each other. > > pixfmtdb relies on the Khronos Data Format Specification [2] to describe > each format. This means that each format is described with a standardized > data blob, which can be re-used with other tools for other purposes. > > My future plans include adding more formats and format families to pixfmtdb, > and make it easy to use the data for code generation, in particular for > automatically generating tables containing metadata about formats, as used > in Wayland compositors and other projects. > > I hope some of you can find this work useful, > > Simon > > [1]: https://pixfmtdb.emersion.fr > [2]: https://www.khronos.org/dataformat -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
