On 9/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mathieu Bouchard</b> <<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">matju@artengine.ca</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">if you're in 8 bits per value, then "444" is 24 bpp, "422" is 16 bpp, and
<br>the others are 12 bpp, but those "bits per pixel" are assuming a "pixel"<br>is defined only in terms of the Y channel. If you do it only in terms of<br>UV channels, then everything is reversed, as "444" is 24 bpp, "422" is 32
<br>bpp, and the others are 48 bpp.</blockquote><div><br>It is important to state that all of the pixels are 24 bit in every YCbCr system. Each pixel can have a unique value even with the shared CbCr.
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