Doubt on video formats supported by various plugins

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 08:57 -0700, Baby Octopus wrote:

Hi,

> That's precisely what I want to know. How does an element like deinterlacer
> deinterlaces say UYVY chroma format? Or videoscaler support Y42B format? I
> presume they will work only on selective chroma formats like I420, YV12 etc.
> If the data isn't available in such formats, they will internally call
> videoconvert to support  to such formats. Correct me if I'm wrong

No, that's not how it works, usually elements will support operating on
all the formats they advertise. No internal conversions (if that was the
case we may just as well advertise all formats on all plugins).

 Cheers
  -Tim