HowTo split YCrCb into Y, Cr and Cb?

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sorry, but look at the question again. his input is not rgb, but interleaved ycrcb

Is it stored as type CV_8UC3 ? In this case split is exactly what you need. In OpenCV the multi channel data is stored in interleaved format by default. See this tutorial.

I take your correction regarding the color conversion. You are correct that it won't be needed.

unfortunately it's not really CV_8UC3. interleaved means, that for every pixel, there's 2 bytes, the Y (intensity) component, and alternating cr (odd) or cb(even).

I understand. This is YUV422 format. For every pixel of Luma(Y) you have one Chroma alternating between CbCr.

What you need to to do is first separate Luma from Chroma. Then split the two Chroma channels.

Then upsample by x2 the Chroma Channels horizontally, to turn them into the same size as as the Luma (presuming this is what you want).

Another option I can offer is to convert this YUV422 Image which is actually in YV12 format into RGB then Split it.

Or split it after converting back to YCbCr 4:4:4 format.

Mat YUV444, GRB;
vector<Mat> SplitYCbCr;

cvtColor(frame, GRB, COLOR_YUV2BGR_UYVY);
cvtColor(GRB, YUV444, COLOR_BGR2YCrCb);

split(YUV444, SplitYCbCr);

Note: When upsampling the Chroma channels you need to pay attention whether source is video of Jpeg image. Both use 422 formats widely but define them differently.