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What is the difference between MJPG and YUY2 video formats

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Motion JPEG (M-JPEG or MJPEG) is a video compression format in which each video frame or interlaced field of a digital video sequence is compressed separately as a JPEG image.

YUY2 Video Picture Encoding. Description. A digital, color-difference component video picture format identified by the FOURCC code YUY2. This format employs 4:2:2 chroma subsampling with each sample represented by 8 bits of data.

So, the difference is that The MJPEG codec uses more compression, resulting in a higher frame rate and a lower quality image. The YUY2 uses less compression, resulting in a higher quality image and a lower frame rate. 

Usually, for video capture card, the video, The order of arrangement from best to average is: RGB, YUY2, NV12, I420, MJPG. 

 

The main content comes from: The meaning of the MJPG and YUV2 designations in the video format. - Debut - NCH Software User Community Public Forums (invisionzone.com) 

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