[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Unplayable yuv422p libx264 output

Stefano Sabatini stefasab at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 01:19:04 CET 2012


On date Thursday 2012-02-16 20:46:12 +0100, Boštjan Strojan encoded:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the following command generates an MP4 file which can be played by
> > ffplay but results in corrupted video when playing it with
> > mplayer/vlc/quicktime:
> >
> > $ ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc -vcodec libx264  -pix_fmt yuv422p  -y out422p.mp4
> >
> > Any idea?
> 
> on OS X, vlc 2.x (nigtly builds - http://nightlies.videolan.org/) and
> MPlayerX (i think thats mplayer2 based) can play 10bit 4:2:2 h.264
> stuff (also lossless variant).
> Latest beta versions of adobe flash should work as well as reported by
> some users.
> No idea about quicktime.

Weird, it seems to affect older versions of VLC/Mplayer, or at least
the versions shipped with Debian.
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