Support for 12 and 16bit bayer formats

[Edgar Thier]

Hi,

I was wondering how gstreamer-1.0 support for 12 and 16 bit bayer formats could look like.
I am maintaining a custom source for industrial cameras that offer these formats and would like to
make them available to users.

The best information concerning the current state I could find is this bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693666

I would like to implement the format descriptions in a way that can be handled by other elements
like bayer2rgb, once they add support for non 8-bit bayer.

Are there any plans to add support for these formats in the near future?
If not, are there guidelines/best practices on how to add custom formats?

Regards,

Edgar