[Intel-gfx] Updated 965 textured video code
Richard Goedeken
SirRichard at fascinationsoftware.com
Fri Apr 11 03:08:27 CEST 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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