[M4IF Technotes] Re: Downloadable standard MPEG test sequences

[Ralph Sperschneider]

Olivier Amato wrote:
> 
> Ben,
> 
> > So, there really isn't a .yuv file format, then?  Just a bunch of
> > mutually incompatible formats with the same extension, and no
> > programmatically way to discriminate between them.
> 
> .yuv files are generally provided in the 4:2:0 color space and are plane
> oriented ( for each frame, all Y samples, then all U samples and finally all
> V samples ). There is no header ( so, no way to guess picture's width /
> height and frame rate ), only raw data with Y, U and V components of each
> frame stored consecutively. Each sequence is generally provided in 2 formats
> ( CIF and QCIF ) and sometimes you can find .cif and .qcif files' extensions
> to differentiate them ...
> But this is not always the case, sometimes .yuv files are stored in the
> 4:2:2 color space and each frame is organized by pixel, with each component
> stored consecutively ( as VQEG sequences for instance ).
> 
> >     Well, in that case we should convert them all the the 2vuy QuickTime
> > files or whatever and make THAT the de facto standard.  The file format
> for
> > those is fully public, and obviously familiar to MPEG-4 folks.  And it
> would
> > remove ambiguity and vastly increase the number of tools that can use the
> > standard test sequences.
> 
> I totally agree, it would be much easier to get a real file format for video
> test sequences ...
> 
> Olivier

Olivier, all,
assuming you are talking mainly about MPEG-4 video test sequences: Is there anything that restricts the video community to use the MPEG-4 file format?
behindern
Best regards,
Ralph
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