Hey everyone,
We'll be adding more raw formats within MistServer soon enough. Currently we only support UYVY and other raw formats need a conversion, while not necessarily a problem it does use up memory and it feels inefficient.
So we have been working on adding more formats. YUYV was first up on the list as most cameras coming out from v4l2 would be in this format and it's close enough to UYVY that it made a lot of sense. You'll be able to use this for the composer feature just like a UYVY track & even mix it with UYVY sources!
So what does this even mean?
Well the very low technical explanation would be that the raw formats describe how to place light and color values within the video image. For UYVY and YUYV they're both 4:2:2 formats. The easy explanation is that the order of how you read out the information is flipped between the two.
We plan on adding NV12 and NV16 as well, though they'd probably follow a bit later.