[FFmpeg-user] ffplay: artifacts on playing images

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Saturday 2014-01-04 15:01:11 +0200, Dainius (GreatEmerald) wrote:
> I am trying to determine the support for yuv444p support in various
> video websites, but I've stumbled into a bit of a problem just
> preparing a sample file. I created an image with text in different
> colours (rgb24), but when I try to play the image in ffplay, I already
> get output that seems as if it was converted into yuv420p or such,
> because the colours are definitely off and the text outlines are
> wrong. Can someone explain why that happens?
> 
> I attached the image. Opening it in an image viewer and then through
> ffplay and putting the two together clearly demonstrates the issue.

ffplay converts to YUV420P, since this is the only format supported by
SDL 1.2. I seem to remember that SDL2 supports more pixel formats
(probably also RGB), but it will take some time before we migrate to
that.