PlanarImageFormat

When talking about planar and an InterleavedImageFormat the main difference is how they are store in memory.

Planar images are stored with each color component separate.

Some examples of planar formats are I420, YV12.

For more information these URL's:

http://www.fourcc.org/fccyuv.htm#Planar%20YUV%20Formats

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/YUVFormats.asp

http://search.microsoft.com/gomsuri.asp?n=1&c=rp_Results&siteid=us/dev&target=http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/graphics/hh/graphics/dxvapxlfmt_7xgn.asp