[MPlayer-users] playing raw RGB video

[Oliver Seitz]

Hi,

I'm playing a stream of raw RGB images. MPlayer output (-v) contains the
following lines:

*** [scale] Exporting mp_image_t, 1024x768x24bpp RGB packed, 2359296 bytes
*** [mirror] Allocating mp_image_t, 1024x768x12bpp YUV planar, 1179648 bytes
*** [bmovl] Allocating mp_image_t, 1024x768x12bpp YUV planar, 1179648 bytes
*** [vo] Allocating mp_image_t, 1024x768x12bpp YUV planar, 1179648 bytes

For the mirror filter it may make little difference, but wouldn't the
bmovl filter work better on RGB than on YUV? I'm a bit confused that even
-vo X11 seems to prefer YUV, it has to be converted to RGB to be
displayed, no?

If some -vo could handle RGB, would the filters be running on RGB? On some
filters I think that might improve performance, and the scale filter
wouldn't be necessary at all.

Thanks for any input :-)

Greets,
Kiste