[SDL] YUV ( What is this? )

Tim Angus tim at ngus.net
Mon Nov 5 08:44:34 PST 2007


Miguel Pragier wrote:
> And what's the main reason to choose YUV in place of RGB?
> Is it common in game develloping?

It's mainly uses for video encoding. Compression codecs often operate in 
the YUV colour space rather than RGB.


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