[FFmpeg-user] getting error while encoding yuv raw video

[Mark Himsley]

On 16/06/2011 20:49, Hardik Sharma wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am getting error while doing encoding of yuv video to h264 format. Please suggest any changes for the following command but I was using the same command previously and it was working fine. I updated ffmpeg recently I am not sure if that affected it. Command and error is as following-
>
>
> ffmpeg$ ffmpeg -y -s 720x480 -b 256k -r 30 -f rawvideo -i akiyo_720x480.yuv

  [...]

> [rawvideo @ 0x92203a0] Pixel format was not specified and cannot be detected

You need to tell FFmpeg the pixel format of the input video file.

Add the appropriate -pix_fmt parameter before -i with the -r and -f.

-- 
Mark