# yuv_buffer Struct Reference
[Legacy pre-1.0 C API]

A YUV buffer for passing uncompressed frames to and from the codec. More...

`#include <theora.h>`

## Data Fields
int | y_width
| Width of the Y' luminance plane.
int | y_height
| Height of the luminance plane.
int | y_stride
| Offset in bytes between successive rows.
int | uv_width
| Width of the Cb and Cr chroma planes.
int | uv_height
| Height of the chroma planes.
int | uv_stride
| Offset between successive chroma rows.
unsigned char * | y
| Pointer to start of luminance data.
unsigned char * | u
| Pointer to start of Cb data.
unsigned char * | v
| Pointer to start of Cr data.

## Detailed Description

A YUV buffer for passing uncompressed frames to and from the codec.

This holds a Y'CbCr frame in planar format. The CbCr planes can be subsampled and have their own separate dimensions and row stride offsets. Note that the strides may be negative in some configurations. For theora the width and height of the largest plane must be a multiple of 16. The actual meaningful picture size and offset are stored in the theora_info structure; frames returned by the decoder may need to be cropped for display.

All samples are 8 bits. Within each plane samples are ordered by row from the top of the frame to the bottom. Within each row samples are ordered from left to right.

During decode, the yuv_buffer struct is allocated by the user, but all fields (including luma and chroma pointers) are filled by the library. These pointers address library-internal memory and their contents should not be modified.

Conversely, during encode the user allocates the struct and fills out all fields. The user also manages the data addressed by the luma and chroma pointers. See the encoder_example.c and dump_video.c example files in theora/examples/ for more information.

## Field Documentation

unsigned char* yuv_buffer::u

Pointer to start of Cb data.

int yuv_buffer::uv_height

Height of the chroma planes.

int yuv_buffer::uv_stride

Offset between successive chroma rows.

int yuv_buffer::uv_width

Width of the Cb and Cr chroma planes.

unsigned char* yuv_buffer::v

Pointer to start of Cr data.

unsigned char* yuv_buffer::y

Pointer to start of luminance data.

int yuv_buffer::y_height

Height of the luminance plane.

int yuv_buffer::y_stride

Offset in bytes between successive rows.

int yuv_buffer::y_width

Width of the Y' luminance plane.

The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file:

- theora.h