.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later

.. _yuv-formats:

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YUV Formats
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YUV is the format native to TV broadcast and composite video signals. It
separates the brightness information (Y) from the color information (U
and V or Cb and Cr). The color information consists of red and blue
*color difference* signals, this way the green component can be
reconstructed by subtracting from the brightness component. See
:ref:`colorspaces` for conversion examples. YUV was chosen because
early television would only transmit brightness information. To add
color in a way compatible with existing receivers a new signal carrier
was added to transmit the color difference signals. Secondary in the YUV
format the U and V components usually have lower resolution than the Y
component. This is an analog video compression technique taking
advantage of a property of the human visual system, being more sensitive
to brightness information.


.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1

    pixfmt-packed-yuv
    pixfmt-grey
    pixfmt-y10
    pixfmt-y12
    pixfmt-y14
    pixfmt-y10b
    pixfmt-y10p
    pixfmt-y16
    pixfmt-y16-be
    pixfmt-y8i
    pixfmt-y12i
    pixfmt-uv8
    pixfmt-yuyv
    pixfmt-uyvy
    pixfmt-yvyu
    pixfmt-vyuy
    pixfmt-y41p
    pixfmt-yuv420
    pixfmt-yuv420m
    pixfmt-yuv422m
    pixfmt-yuv444m
    pixfmt-yuv410
    pixfmt-yuv422p
    pixfmt-yuv411p
    pixfmt-nv12
    pixfmt-nv12m
    pixfmt-nv12mt
    pixfmt-nv16
    pixfmt-nv16m
    pixfmt-nv24
    pixfmt-m420
