[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg-55ed91c and x264-d9d2288. Profile setting differs from output.

[James Darnley]

On 2012-07-23 22:43, Joseph Rosensweig wrote:
>    Thanks for the replies.  I'm pretty new to FFMPEG so I'm picking these
> things up as I go.  So for the first issue with the high444 and high422
> coming out as high.  In an earlier version of FFMPEG, when I took raw 4:2:0
> YUV data and encoded it using the ultrafast lossless preset.  FFMPEG would
> show "High 4:4:4 Predictive", despite the fact that I was feeding it 4:2:0
> YUV.  That is where this confusion came from for me.

Just a quick follow-up to let you know that "High 4:4:4 Predictive" was
used because it is the only profile to allow lossless encoding.