YUV4MPEG2 Origin
June 30th, 2008 by 
Multimedia Mike
Does anyone know where the YUV4MPEG2 format comes from? If you google for it, you will find the afore-linked MultimediaWiki page. Does that imply that multimedia.cx, in conjuntion with FFmpeg, control the ‘standard’, such as it is?
The reason I am wondering is that I have some experiments I wish to perform that involve raw video data that does not necessarily conform to any of the formats already enumerated in Y4M’s wiki description.
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3 Comments »
June 30th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I don’t know if this helps, but have you seen this link?
http://linux.die.net/man/5/yuv4mpeg
June 30th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
As a matter of fact, no, so thanks for that link. So the format definitely doesn’t support what I need. And I’m a bit wary about putting code out in the wild that violates standard.
May 5th, 2012 at 4:31 am
when it violates standard but adds more colorspace or speed or compression, just do what ffmpeg did with huffyuv and make a new codec/format called ffyuv4mpeg :P