[ANNOUNCE] pixfmtdb

[Sebastian Wick]

Why is the TF defined for GL formats and both the primaries and TF for
Vulkan formats? The only exception here should be sRGB formats. Where
did you get the information from?

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 4:51 PM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>