[FFmpeg-user] 420p out from ffmpeg becomes 420i in to x264

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Hi,

On 5/15/11 3:29 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> I'm trying to use ffmpeg to pipe a stream to x264. Both ffmpeg and x264
> from git today.
> 
>  I'm deinterlacing the input with yadif, piped output is yuv4mpeg. And
> ffmpeg thinks is generating yuv420p.
> 
> But x264 is seeing the piped stream as interlaced. I thought yuv4mpeg
> had a header describing the stream. Is that so? If so, is the problem
> here that ffmpeg is not writing the header correctly, x264 is not
> reading it correctly, or have I screwed up something?
> 
> sean
> 
> + ffmpeg -i JulyPlay1990.avi -an -vf yadif=1:0,hqdn3d -r 60000/1001
> -pix_fmt yuv420p -f yuv4mpegpipe -
> + x264 --demuxer y4m --preset slower --tune film --bitrate 1200 -o
> out3.m4v -

I suggest you use ffmpeg directly instead of piping.

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