# SDL: Vulkan YUV texture support cleanup

**URL:** <https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-vulkan-yuv-texture-support-cleanup/69306>\
**Category:** SDL Commits\
**Created:** [September 13, 2026, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-vulkan-yuv-texture-support-cleanup/69306 "2026-09-13T09:45:20Z")\
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> <https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/dc7ad197c84d467d1c632e85517a0ad180f145cf>

```diff
From dc7ad197c84d467d1c632e85517a0ad180f145cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Lantinga <[EMAIL REDACTED]>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:28:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Vulkan YUV texture support cleanup

---
 src/render/vulkan/SDL_render_vulkan.c | 112 +++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/render/vulkan/SDL_render_vulkan.c b/src/render/vulkan/SDL_render_vulkan.c
index 39abd1ca49da9..7891dcbbb8e5a 100644
--- a/src/render/vulkan/SDL_render_vulkan.c
+++ b/src/render/vulkan/SDL_render_vulkan.c
@@ -159,7 +159,6 @@ typedef void (*pfnAHardwareBuffer_describe)(const AHardwareBuffer *, AHardwareBu
     VULKAN_INSTANCE_FUNCTION(vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceSupportKHR) \
     VULKAN_INSTANCE_FUNCTION(vkQueueWaitIdle) \
     VULKAN_OPTIONAL_INSTANCE_FUNCTION(vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR) \
- VULKAN_OPTIONAL_INSTANCE_FUNCTION(vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties2KHR) \
     VULKAN_OPTIONAL_INSTANCE_FUNCTION(vkGetPhysicalDeviceMemoryProperties2KHR) \
     VULKAN_OPTIONAL_INSTANCE_FUNCTION(vkGetPhysicalDeviceProperties2KHR) \
     VULKAN_OPTIONAL_DEVICE_FUNCTION(vkCreateSamplerYcbcrConversionKHR) \
@@ -567,51 +566,10 @@ static VkDeviceSize VULKAN_GetBytesPerPixel(VkFormat vkFormat, int plane)
     }
 }
 
-static VkFormat SDLPixelFormatToVkTextureFormat(SDL_PixelFormat format, Uint32 output_colorspace)
-{
- switch (format) {
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_INDEX8:
- return VK_FORMAT_R8_UNORM;
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_YUY2:
- return VK_FORMAT_G8B8G8R8_422_UNORM;
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_UYVY:
- return VK_FORMAT_B8G8R8G8_422_UNORM;
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_YV12:
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_IYUV:
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_I444:
- return VK_FORMAT_R8_UNORM;
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_NV12:
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_NV21:
- return VK_FORMAT_G8_B8R8_2PLANE_420_UNORM;
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_P010:
- return VK_FORMAT_G10X6_B10X6R10X6_2PLANE_420_UNORM_3PACK16;
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_I0FL:
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_I4FL:
- return VK_FORMAT_R16_UNORM;
- default:
- for (int i = 0; i < SDL_arraysize(vk_format_map); i++) {
- if (vk_format_map[i].sdl == format) {
- if (output_colorspace == SDL_COLORSPACE_SRGB_LINEAR ||
- output_colorspace == SDL_COLORSPACE_HDR10) {
- return vk_format_map[i].srgb;
- } else {
- return vk_format_map[i].unorm;
- }
- }
- }
- return VK_FORMAT_UNDEFINED;
- }
-}
-
 static VkFormat VULKAN_GetVkImageFormat(SDL_PixelFormat format, Uint32 output_colorspace)
 {
     switch (format) {
     case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_INDEX8:
- return VK_FORMAT_R8_UNORM;
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_YUY2:
- return VK_FORMAT_G8B8G8R8_422_UNORM;
- case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_UYVY:
- return VK_FORMAT_B8G8R8G8_422_UNORM;
     case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_YV12:
     case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_IYUV:
     case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_I444:
@@ -651,7 +609,7 @@ static VkFormat VULKAN_GetVkImageViewFormat(SDL_PixelFormat format, int plane, U
         }
     case SDL_PIXELFORMAT_P010:
         if (plane == 0) {
- return VK_FORMAT_R8_UNORM;
+ return VK_FORMAT_R16_UNORM;
         } else {
             return VK_FORMAT_R16G16_UNORM;
         }
@@ -2967,8 +2925,8 @@ static bool VULKAN_CreatePalette(SDL_Renderer *renderer, SDL_TexturePalette *pal
     }
     palette->internal = palettedata;
 
- VkFormat format = SDLPixelFormatToVkTextureFormat(SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGBA32, renderer->output_colorspace);
- VkImageUsageFlags usage = VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT | VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_SRC_BIT | VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT;
+ VkFormat format = VULKAN_GetVkImageFormat(SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGBA32, renderer->output_colorspace);
+ VkImageUsageFlags usage = (VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT | VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT);
     VkComponentMapping imageViewSwizzle = data->identitySwizzle;
     VkResult result = VULKAN_AllocateImage(data, 0, NULL, 256, 1, format, usage, VK_NULL_HANDLE, NULL, &palettedata->image);
     if (result != VK_SUCCESS) {
@@ -5226,6 +5184,19 @@ static bool VULKAN_SetVSync(SDL_Renderer *renderer, const int vsync)
     return true;
 }
 
+static bool VULKAN_TextureFormatSupported(VkPhysicalDevice physicalDevice, VkFormat format)
+{
+ VkImageFormatProperties properties;
+ if (vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties(physicalDevice, format,
+ VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D,
+ VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL,
+ (VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT | VK_IMAGE_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT),
+ 0, &properties) == VK_SUCCESS) {
+ return true;
+ }
+ return false;
+}
+
 static bool VULKAN_CreateRenderer(SDL_Renderer *renderer, SDL_Window *window, SDL_PropertiesID create_props)
 {
     VULKAN_RenderData *rendererData;
@@ -5309,42 +5280,37 @@ static bool VULKAN_CreateRenderer(SDL_Renderer *renderer, SDL_Window *window, SD
     }
 
     for (int i = 0; i < SDL_arraysize(vk_format_map); i++) {
- VkImageFormatProperties properties;
-
- if (vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties(rendererData->physicalDevice,
- vk_format_map[i].unorm,
- VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D,
- VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL,
- VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT,
- 0,
- &properties) != VK_SUCCESS) {
+ if (!VULKAN_TextureFormatSupported(rendererData->physicalDevice, vk_format_map[i].unorm)) {
             continue;
         }
-
- if (vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties(rendererData->physicalDevice,
- vk_format_map[i].srgb,
- VK_IMAGE_TYPE_2D,
- VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL,
- VK_IMAGE_USAGE_SAMPLED_BIT,
- 0,
- &properties) != VK_SUCCESS) {
+ if (!VULKAN_TextureFormatSupported(rendererData->physicalDevice, vk_format_map[i].srgb)) {
             continue;
         }
-
         SDL_AddSupportedTextureFormat(renderer, vk_format_map[i].sdl);
     }
 
- SDL_AddSupportedTextureFormat(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_INDEX8);
+ if (VULKAN_TextureFormatSupported(rendererData->physicalDevice,
+ VULKAN_GetVkImageFormat(SDL_PIXELFORMAT_INDEX8, renderer->output_colorspace)) &&
+ VULKAN_TextureFormatSupported(rendererData->physicalDevice,
+ VULKAN_GetVkImageFormat(SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGBA32, renderer->output_colorspace))) {
+ SDL_AddSupportedTextureFormat(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_INDEX8);
+ }
 
- if (rendererData->supportsKHRSamplerYCbCrConversion) {
- SDL_AddSupportedTextureFormat(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_YV12);
- SDL_AddSupportedTextureFormat(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_IYUV);
- SDL_AddSupportedTextureFormat(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_I444);
- SDL_AddSupportedTextureFormat(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_NV12);
- SDL_AddSupportedTextureFormat(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_NV21);
- SDL_AddSupportedTextureFormat(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_P010);
- SDL_AddSupportedTextureFormat(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_I0FL);
- SDL_AddSupportedTextureFormat(renderer, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_I4FL);
+ static const SDL_PixelFormat yuvFormats[] = {
+ SDL_PIXELFORMAT_YV12,
+ SDL_PIXELFORMAT_IYUV,
+ SDL_PIXELFORMAT_I444,
+ SDL_PIXELFORMAT_NV12,
+ SDL_PIXELFORMAT_NV21,
+ SDL_PIXELFORMAT_P010,
+ SDL_PIXELFORMAT_I0FL,
+ SDL_PIXELFORMAT_I4FL
+ };
+ for (int i = 0; i < SDL_arraysize(yuvFormats); ++i) {
+ VkFormat format = VULKAN_GetVkImageFormat(yuvFormats[i], renderer->output_colorspace);
+ if (VULKAN_TextureFormatSupported(rendererData->physicalDevice, format)) {
+ SDL_AddSupportedTextureFormat(renderer, yuvFormats[i]);
+ }
     }
 
     if (rendererData->supportsANDROIDExternalMemoryAndroidHardwareBuffer) {

```