<refentry id="V4L2-PIX-FMT-NV12M"> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12M ('NM12')</refentrytitle> &manvol; </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname> <constant>V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12M</constant></refname> <refpurpose>Variation of <constant>V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12</constant> with planes non contiguous in memory. </refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsect1> <title>Description</title> <para>This is a multi-planar, two-plane version of the YUV 4:2:0 format. The three components are separated into two sub-images or planes. <constant>V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12M</constant> differs from <constant>V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12 </constant> in that the two planes are non-contiguous in memory, i.e. the chroma plane do not necessarily immediately follows the luma plane. The luminance data occupies the first plane. The Y plane has one byte per pixel. In the second plane there is a chrominance data with alternating chroma samples. The CbCr plane is the same width, in bytes, as the Y plane (and of the image), but is half as tall in pixels. Each CbCr pair belongs to four pixels. For example, Cb<subscript>0</subscript>/Cr<subscript>0</subscript> belongs to Y'<subscript>00</subscript>, Y'<subscript>01</subscript>, Y'<subscript>10</subscript>, Y'<subscript>11</subscript>. </para> <para><constant>V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12M</constant> is intended to be used only in drivers and applications that support the multi-planar API, described in <xref linkend="planar-apis"/>. </para> <para>If the Y plane has pad bytes after each row, then the CbCr plane has as many pad bytes after its rows.</para> <example> <title><constant>V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV12M</constant> 4 × 4 pixel image</title> <formalpara> <title>Byte Order.</title> <para>Each cell is one byte. <informaltable frame="none"> <tgroup cols="5" align="center"> <colspec align="left" colwidth="2*" /> <tbody valign="top"> <row> <entry>start0 + 0:</entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>00</subscript></entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>01</subscript></entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>02</subscript></entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>03</subscript></entry> </row> <row> <entry>start0 + 4:</entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>10</subscript></entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>11</subscript></entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>12</subscript></entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>13</subscript></entry> </row> <row> <entry>start0 + 8:</entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>20</subscript></entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>21</subscript></entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>22</subscript></entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>23</subscript></entry> </row> <row> <entry>start0 + 12:</entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>30</subscript></entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>31</subscript></entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>32</subscript></entry> <entry>Y'<subscript>33</subscript></entry> </row> <row> <entry></entry> </row> <row> <entry>start1 + 0:</entry> <entry>Cb<subscript>00</subscript></entry> <entry>Cr<subscript>00</subscript></entry> <entry>Cb<subscript>01</subscript></entry> <entry>Cr<subscript>01</subscript></entry> </row> <row> <entry>start1 + 4:</entry> <entry>Cb<subscript>10</subscript></entry> <entry>Cr<subscript>10</subscript></entry> <entry>Cb<subscript>11</subscript></entry> <entry>Cr<subscript>11</subscript></entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> </informaltable> </para> </formalpara> <formalpara> <title>Color Sample Location.</title> <para> <informaltable frame="none"> <tgroup cols="7" align="center"> <tbody valign="top"> <row> <entry></entry> <entry>0</entry><entry></entry><entry>1</entry><entry></entry> <entry>2</entry><entry></entry><entry>3</entry> </row> <row> <entry>0</entry> <entry>Y</entry><entry></entry><entry>Y</entry><entry></entry> <entry>Y</entry><entry></entry><entry>Y</entry> </row> <row> <entry></entry> <entry></entry><entry>C</entry><entry></entry><entry></entry> <entry></entry><entry>C</entry><entry></entry> </row> <row> <entry>1</entry> <entry>Y</entry><entry></entry><entry>Y</entry><entry></entry> <entry>Y</entry><entry></entry><entry>Y</entry> </row> <row> <entry></entry> </row> <row> <entry>2</entry> <entry>Y</entry><entry></entry><entry>Y</entry><entry></entry> <entry>Y</entry><entry></entry><entry>Y</entry> </row> <row> <entry></entry> <entry></entry><entry>C</entry><entry></entry><entry></entry> <entry></entry><entry>C</entry><entry></entry> </row> <row> <entry>3</entry> <entry>Y</entry><entry></entry><entry>Y</entry><entry></entry> <entry>Y</entry><entry></entry><entry>Y</entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> </informaltable> </para> </formalpara> </example> </refsect1> </refentry>