[FFmpeg-user] bgra to yuv

[Josh long]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Josh long <funkyirish at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>wrote:
>
>> Josh long <funkyirish <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> >  ffmpeg -i 0_10_sec.avi -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 0_10_secrgb..avi
>>
>> rawvideo in avi does not allow rgb24, only bgr24 is
>> supported for that combination.
>>
>> Carl Eugen
>>
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>
> ah I see.  Again I suppose I need to do more homework on this.  So I
> suppose it's just a fluke that it plays the correct colors when I first go
> to rgba and then rgb24?
>
> Also why is it that yuv444p ends up so distorted, is it because I used
> rawvideo?
>
> Thanks again for all of your help.
>
> Joshua
>

I would like to rephrase my original question;  What's the best route to
take (with quality preservation being the metric) to get to yuv444p from
bgra?

Thanks