VLC player needs to support Y16 codec

Videogamer555 · Postby **Videogamer555** » 12 Jun 2017 08:28

Y16 is uncompressed 16bits per pixel grayscale. Each pixel has a brightness value specified as an unsigned short (2-byte) integer. I believe that such a video format is valid, as I remember reading about it on a technical forum before, where a certain thermal imager was mentioned to output its raw 16bit video stream in a VFW (video for windows) compatible Y16 format, so that the raw signal could be used with the standard Windows video API (no need for additional drivers needed for handling the device's output). Such a video stream could be saved to an AVI file, with the Y16 codec specified, and a proper video player should be able to play it.

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 28 Aug 2017 11:21

Please share a sample and a bugreport.

addi · Postby **addi** » 07 Jan 2019 13:32

So Does VLC Player support Y16 without any additional Ws drivers?

Postby **Rémi Denis-Courmont** » 07 Jan 2019 16:42

No. Patches are welcome.

addi · Postby **addi** » 08 Jan 2019 11:34

Even through SDP file?

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