YUV
The native signal format of video. When video is digitized and compressed (MPEG, Indeo, etc.), it is kept in YUV format, because it takes less storage than the RGB equivalent. In order to display YUV data on a monitor, it must be converted into RGB, which is known as color space conversion.



 

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