[MPlayer-dev-eng] Xv and RGB

[Aurelien Jacobs]

Jan Knutar wrote:

> On Friday 25 July 2008, Corbin Simpson wrote:
> 
> > Which RGB colorspaces would be most useful or helpful to you?

for i in RGB8 RGB15 RGB16 RGB24 RGB32 BGR8 BGR15 BGR16 BGR24 BGR32; do
    echo -en "$i:\t"
    grep "^[^;]*out.*$i" mplayer/etc/codecs.conf | wc -l
done

RGB8:	9
RGB15:	0
RGB16:	1
RGB24:	15
RGB32:	11
BGR8:	44
BGR15:	52
BGR16:	17
BGR24:	98
BGR32:	67

So BGR24/BGR32 seems to be the most commonly used RGB colorspace among
MPlayer codecs, and BGR seems much more common than RGB.

> > Apologies if this is the wrong list.
> 
> RGB isn't that useful for video.

Indeed, RGB is rarely useful for video.

Aurel