YUVTOPPM(1)

💖 yuvtoppm — the Yuvtoppm User Manual, bestie edition 💖

so like. you got a pile of raw Abekas YUV bytes and you want a PPM out of it? ok periodt, that's literally what this little icon of a Netpbm program does. pull up a chair 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

yuvtoppm — convert Abekas YUV bytes to PPM

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

yuvtoppm

width height [imagedata]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first things first: this program is part of Netpbm(1). it's one of the family. you're not alone here 💜

yuvtoppm reads raw Abekas YUV bytes as its input, and it produces a PPM image as its output. and when we say raw, we mean RAW — the input file is just YUV bytes. no header, no little metadata bow, nothing. it's giving "mystery box" energy and honestly? we respect it.

the consequence of that, bestie, is that you have to tell it the width and height right there on the command line. the program obviously can't get them from the file, because the file literally does not contain them. no cap. it's not being lazy, there's just nothing in there to read 📭

also, yuvtoppm assumes the maxval of the input is 255. that's the assumption. that's the vibe.

if you wanna know a little more about the Abekas YUV format itself, the ppmtoyuv manual(1) spills some tea about it ☕

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so here's the thing — there are no command line options defined specifically for yuvtoppm. none. zero. it's a minimal queen and she ate. 👑

but — and this is the important part — it does recognize the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm. (See Common Options.) so don't come for her saying she has no options, she's got the whole libnetpbm arsenal, she's just not adding anything extra on top ✨

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• ppmtoyuv(1)
• ppm(1)

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Marc Boucher <marc@PostImage.COM>, based on Example Conversion Program, A60/A64 Digital Video Interface Manual, page 69. shoutout to page 69 fr fr 🙈

Copyright (C) 1991 by DHD PostImage Inc.

Copyright (C) 1987 by Abekas Video Systems Inc.

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📜 DOCUMENT SOURCE 📜

this manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool makeman from HTML source. the master documentation lives at:

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/yuvtoppm.html

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⭐ okay that's the whole page, you're fully caught up, go convert some YUV bytes and slay 💖

this has been the Yuvtoppm User Manual(1), coming to you from netpbm documentation, dated 25 March 91. mwah. bye bestie 🫶🌈💅