VLC Media Player is a free, open-source, cross-platform multimedia player that supports a vast range of formats without the need for additional codecs.

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This is the part ware you take your luma & chroma data to the ld-chroma-decoder which combines it and then decodes it to a RGB or YUV stream with FFmpeg using the merge planes function, resulting in a ...