---
name: "ppmtoeyuv"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "netpbm"
version: "10.86.51-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ppmtoeyuv"
---

# ppmtoeyuv(1)

convert a PPM image into a Berkeley YUV file

## NAME

ppmtoeyuv - convert a PPM image into a Berkeley YUV file

## SYNOPSIS

**ppmtoeyuv**

\[*ppmfile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This program is part of **Netpbm**(1) .

**ppmtoeyuv** reads a PPM image as input and produces a Berkeley Encoder YUV (not the same as Abekas YUV) file on the Standard Output file.

With no argument, **ppmtoeyuv**takes input from Standard Input. Otherwise, *ppmfile* is the file specification of the input file.

**ppmtoeyuv** handles multi-image PPM input streams, outputting consecutive eyuv images.  There must be at least one image, though.

## OPTIONS

There are no command line options defined specifically for **ppmtoeyuv**, but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See \
  Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)

## SEE ALSO

[**eyuvtoppm**(1)](/eyuvtoppm/1.md) , [**ppmtoyuv**(1)](/ppmtoyuv/1.md) , **ppm**(1)

## DOCUMENT SOURCE

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

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  **http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmtoeyuv.html**