[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avutil: Add NV61 pixel format and enable IO support for NV16 and NV61 pixel formats

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Am Fr., 19. Juni 2020 um 20:33 Uhr schrieb Cristian Bicheru
<c.bicheru0 at gmail.com>:
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> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:53 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Am Fr., 19. Juni 2020 um 18:42 Uhr schrieb <c.bicheru0 at gmail.com>:
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> > > From: Cristian Bicheru <c.bicheru0 at gmail.com>
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> > > NV16 and NV61 are interleaved 4:2:2 8-bit formats. There was some internal
> > > NV16 support prior to this patch but the pixel format was not publicly accessible.

> > Please explain (as thorough as possible) why the new pix_fmt is necessay.
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> I mainly added the new format for completion

This does not sound like a good reason to add complexity.

If you find a camera that only supports NV61, I would say
we should reconsider.

Carl Eugen