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Jun 19, 2024 at 11:00 vote accept rwallace
Jun 18, 2024 at 20:33 comment added Justme @benrg Technically you are correct - I was think more like two YCbCr video streams that may be in 4:2:2 chroma subsampled form. Anyway, digital format would be in YCbCr which uses offset binary, so either the YUV would need to be in signed integer form or the offset binary would require removing the offset before mixing and adding it in for final output. Also if you are a human you likely can define a color like red, yellow or green in RGB format easily, but even with years of working with YCbCr video, I still can't define colors I want without converting RGB to YCbCr, so not intuitive.
Jun 18, 2024 at 19:22 comment added benrg "in hardware blend colors from different layer in RGB colorspace, something which isn't as easy in YUV" - why wouldn't it be? They're linear transformations of each other so the math would be exactly the same.
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