Ppmtoyuv User Manual(0) Ppmtoyuv User Manual(0)NAMEppmtoyuv - convert a PPM image to an Abekas YUV file
SYNOPSISppmtoyuv [ppmfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1)ppmtoyuv reads a PPM image as input and produces an Abekas YUV file as
output.
The output file contains a raster of four byte YUV codes, each uniquely
associated with two side-by-side pixels in the image. The raster con‐
tains rows in order from top to bottom, and within each row columns
from left to right. So the output file size in bytes is twice the num‐
ber of pixels in the image.
Each YUV code is associated with two pixels from the input image that
we will call the left pixel and the right pixel. The 2nd byte of the
code is the Y value of the left pixel. The 4th byte of the code is the
Y value of the right pixel. The 1st byte of the code is an average of
the U value of the pixel to the left of the left pixel, the left pixel,
and the right pixel. The 3rd byte of the code is analogous for V val‐
ues. These averages are weighted arithmetic means where the left pixel
is weighted double what the other two pixels are weighted.
This format is reminiscent of but rather different from the common YUV
4:2:0 format (aka YUV 420) and the similar YUV 4:4:4, YUV 4:2:2, YUV
4:1:1, YUV 4:1:1s, and YUV 4:1:0. In YUV 4:2:0, the raster is differ‐
ent for even numbered lines and odd numbered lines. On even numbered
lines, there are twice as many bits for Y of each pixel as for U or V.
On odd numbered lines, there are the same number of bits for Y as on
even numbered lines, but no bits at all for U and V.
Another YUV-based format is YUV4MPEG2, which is a movie format normally
used with MJPEGTools ⟨http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net⟩ . Netpbm does not
have converters for this format, but MJPEGTools does.
SEE ALSOyuvtoppm(1) , ppmtoeyuv(1) , ppmtoyuvsplit(1) , ppm(5) , pnmtoy4m
⟨http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net⟩ , y4mtopnm
⟨http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net⟩
AUTHOR
Marc Boucher marc@PostImage.COM, based on Example Conversion Program,
A60/A64 Digital Video Interface Manual, page 69.
Copyright (C) 1991 by DHD PostImage Inc.
Copyright (C) 1987 by Abekas Video Systems Inc.
netpbm documentation 06 June 2005 Ppmtoyuv User Manual(0)