YUV Format Conclusion

What’s YUV ?
A kind of color format coding which can divide color into two parts: chroma and luma.

Calculate YUV
Change between YUV and RGB.

YUV Representation
From JM or HEVC, we can find this:

YUV422 Planar

YUV420 Planar

(1)
Increasing Memory Addresses
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| Y0 | Y1 | Y2 | Y3| ……
| U0 | U1 | ……
| V0 | V1 | ……
(2)
Increasing Memory Addresses
————————————————————————————->
| Y0 | Y1 | Y2 | Y3| ……
| V0 | V1 | ……
| U0 | U1 | ……

YUV422 Semi-Planar

YUV420 Semi-Planar

YUV422 Interleaved

YUY2:
| Y0 | V0 | Y1 | V0 | | Y2 | U1 | Y3 | V1 | | Y4 | U2 | Y5 | V2 | ……
UYVY:
| U0 | Y0 | V0 | Y1 | | U1 | Y2 | V1 | Y3 | | U2 | Y4 | V2 | Y5 | ……
One pixel is 16 bits.

http://www.cnblogs.com/watson/p/3788257.html
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