fourcc.rst (805B)
1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 3Guidelines for Video4Linux pixel format 4CCs 4============================================ 5 6Guidelines for Video4Linux 4CC codes defined using v4l2_fourcc() are 7specified in this document. First of the characters defines the nature of 8the pixel format, compression and colour space. The interpretation of the 9other three characters depends on the first one. 10 11Existing 4CCs may not obey these guidelines. 12 13Raw bayer 14--------- 15 16The following first characters are used by raw bayer formats: 17 18- B: raw bayer, uncompressed 19- b: raw bayer, DPCM compressed 20- a: A-law compressed 21- u: u-law compressed 22 232nd character: pixel order 24 25- B: BGGR 26- G: GBRG 27- g: GRBG 28- R: RGGB 29 303rd character: uncompressed bits-per-pixel 0--9, A-- 31 324th character: compressed bits-per-pixel 0--9, A--