[Intel-gfx] Updated 965 textured video code

Richard Goedeken SirRichard at fascinationsoftware.com
Thu Apr 10 18:08:27 PDT 2008


Chad wrote:
> What might "packed video" and "planar" formats be?  I did a bit of
> google-ing and really didn't find much beyond a pantent which
> interestingly was for Intel :)
> 

Video is commonly stored in luminance / chrominance formats instead of RGB for 
compression reasons.  It can have separate planes (buffers) for the Y 
(luminance) and U and V (chrominance) components, or it can have them packed 
together like YUYV YUYV YUYV.

Richard


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