Meaning of RGB8

[tomg]

What precisely is meant by RGB8? Is this a paletized RGB format? Or, is it RGB888, i.e. RGB24? Just trying to understand before I start punching out code.

Thanks.
tom

[owaits]

The way we have implemented this is as RGB with 8Bits for Red, 8Bits for Green, 8Bits for Blue. It strictly should be RGB24.

You might have to be careful though as from what I remember most implementations of this are actually BGR. I seem to remember that initially I set it to RGB and then realised it did not work with anything correctly.

[lasso]

You might have to be careful though as from what I remember most implementations of this are actually BGR. I seem to remember that initially I set it to RGB and then realised it did not work with anything correctly.

Yep, prior to version 1.1 of MSEX, RGB data was transmitted as BGR rather then RGB!

[tomg]

Thanks. R8G8B8/RGB24 it is then. Now reordering for network order just needs to be done. Gotta love Intel machines.

Onward...
tom

[tomg]

Thrashing through this a bit mroe, are the following two statements correct?

1) The RGB8 buffer contains RGB triples from the top-left corner of the image to the bottom-right corner of the image.
2) The RGB8 buffer only contains RGB triples and does not contain meta data as in a Windows BMP files or other container format files.

Thanks again for the assist.
tom

[lasso]

1) The RGB8 buffer contains RGB triples from the top-left corner of the image to the bottom-right corner of the image.
2) The RGB8 buffer only contains RGB triples and does not contain meta data as in a Windows BMP files or other container format files.

Sounds right!