Originally committed as revision 17549 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
uint16_t depth_minus1 :4; ///< number of bits in the component minus 1
}AVComponentDescriptor;
+/**
+ * Descriptor that unambigously describes how the bits of a pixel are
+ * stored in the up to 4 data planes of an image. It also stores the
+ * subsampling factors and number of components.
+ *
+ * @note This is seperate of the colorspace (RGB, YCbCr, YPbPr, jpeg style YUV and all the YUV variants)
+ * AVPixFmtDescripto just stores how values are stored not what these values represent.
+ */
typedef struct AVPixFmtDescriptor{
uint8_t nb_channels; ///< The number of components each pixel has, (1-4)