[FFmpeg-devel] [libav-devel] [PATCH] Add interleaved 4:2:2 8/10-bit formats

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Kieran Kunhya <kierank at obe.tv> wrote:
>> I've never heard of NV20, but i know NV16 as 4:2:2 8-bit, similar to NV12
>> just for 4:2:2, not as 16bpp - so this would conflict with this defintion.
>>
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> 8-bit 4:2:2 is 16 bits per sample (I don't know why bpp is used in that
> file)

You mean 8-bit per sample, but 16-bit per pixel (due to sub-sampling)?
So it matches my understanding of NV16? (just NV12 with less
subsampling)
If the samples are 8-bit, why a BE/LE variant?

- Hendrik