my tech blog » ImageMagick YCbCr YUV 4:2:2 https://billauer.se/blog Anything I found worthy to write down. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:36:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Using ImageMagick to convert a 4:2:2 YCrCb raw image to something viewable https://billauer.se/blog/2009/02/imagemagick-convert-ycbcr/ https://billauer.se/blog/2009/02/imagemagick-convert-ycbcr/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:37:41 +0000 eli https://billauer.se/blog/?p=9 Some electronic imaging system dumped a 4:2:2 YCbCr raw image into a file. It’s a debug output. Now I wanted to see this image. GIMP doesn’t import that format. ImageMagick had the solution. It was as simple as

convert -size 800x600 pal:ImageOut.raw ImageOut.bmp

I don’t know why they picked the codename “pal” to represent 4:2:2 format (maybe because of ITU-R BT.601?) , but it did the job. Ah, they call it “YUV” and not “YCbCr”, but it was really close enough for me.

For a list of supported formats:

convert -list format
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