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NAME
     y4mcolorbars - Create a YUV4MPEG2 stream containing a colorbar test pattern

SYNOPSIS
     y4mcolorbars [options]

DESCRIPTION
     y4mcolorbars  creates a YUV4MPEG2 stream consisting entirely of frames con-
     taining a colorbar test pattern.  The pattern  attempts  to  reproduce  the
     standard  SMPTE  EG-1-1990  colorbar test signal as faithfully as possible,
     given the constraints of the Y'CbCr colorspace.

     Output is to stdout to facilitate piping to other MJPEG tools.

OPTIONS
     y4mcolorbars accepts the following options:

     -n num
	  Output a total of 'num' output frames. [default: 1]

     -F n:d
	  Set framerate encoded in output stream, as  an  exact  integer  ratio.
	  Common rates are:
	   24000:1001 - NTSC 3:2 pulldown converted film
		 24:1 - native film
		 25:1 - PAL/SECAM
	   30000:1001 - NTSC video [default]
		 50:1 - PAL field rate
	   60000:1001 - NTSC field rate

     -W w
	  Set frame width. [default: 720]

     -H h
	  Set frame height. [default: 480]

     -A n:d
	  Set  pixel  aspect ratio encoded in output stream, as an exact integer
	  ratio.  Common ratios are:
	       1:1  - square pixels (e.g. computer graphics)
	      10:11 - CCIR-601 NTSC [default]
	      59:54 - CCIR-601 PAL

     -I x
	  Set interlacing mode, used to interpret the PPM image(s), and also en-
	  coded in output stream.
	   p - progressive, non-interlaced [default]
	   t - top/upper-field-first interlaced
	   b - bottom/lower-field-first interlaced

     -Q n
	  Data to place in the "-I/+Q" patches in the bottom row of the pattern:
	   0 -	-I and +Q at 20% (20IRE)  [default]
	   1 -	-I and +Q at 50% (50IRE)
	   2 -	+Cb and +Cr at 100%

     -S mode
	  Set chroma subsampling mode.
		 444 - 4:4:4 (no subsampling) [default]
	     420jpeg - 4:2:0 JPEG/MPEG-1, interstitial cositing
	    420mpeg2 - 4:2:0 MPEG-2, horizontal cositing

	  The supported subsampled modes use a lousy subsampling filter;  better
	  results  will  be  achieved  by  passing the default 4:4:4 output to a
	  scaler which supports subsampling, such as y4mscaler(1).

     -v [0,1,2]
	  Set verbosity level.
	   0 -	warnings and errors only.
	   1 -	add informative messages, too. [default]
	   2 -	add chatty debugging message, too.

EXAMPLES
     To create and display 200 frames of colorbars corresponding to a top-field-
     first interlaced 4:3 NTSC source:

	  y4mcolorbars -n 200 -It -S 420jpeg | yuvplay

     To create and display 200 frames of colorbars corresponding  to  a  bottom-
     field-first interlaced 4:3 PAL source:

	  y4mcolorbars -n 200 -H 576 -F 25:1 -A 59:54 -Ib | yuvplay

BUGS
     First,  it's  not	clear  to  the author (who hasn't actually ever seen the
     SMPTE EG-1-1990 document itself) what the absolute excursion of the -I  and
     +Q  regions  is  supposed	to  be;  however, the phase is correct, and that
     should be the critical feature.  Second, the PLUGE bars, of -4 and +4  IRE,
     can  never  be precisely synthesized --- the Y' digital space maps [16,235]
     over the full luma excursion, but the full luma excursion in  analog  space
     depends  on whether or not 7.5 IRE NTSC setup is being used by whatever de-
     vice eventually produces the analog output.   However,  the  difference  is
     within 1-bit of Y' accuracy anyway.

AUTHOR
     This man page was written by Matt Marjanovic.
     If  you  have  questions, remarks, problems or you just want to contact the
     developers, the main mailing list for the MJPEG-tools is:
       mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net

     For more info, see our website at
	    http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net

SEE ALSO
     mjpegtools(1), mpeg2enc(1), y4mscaler(1), yuv2lav(1), yuvplay(1)

MJPEG Tools Team		  28 April 2004 		 y4mcolorbars(1)

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