[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg support for color encoding conversion?

[Lou Logan]

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018, at 10:25 AM, Dan Edwards wrote:
>  Hey all,
> 
> I am looking for an alternate solution to avconv on a Raspberry Pi setup
> running RetroPie.
> 
> Have been trying to use it to convert some videos in the color format
> yuv444p to yuv420p which is needed for a hardware accelerated video
> playback feature in RetroPie.
> 
> But avconv will often crash out with
> 
>     Error in `avconv': realloc(): invalid next size
> 
> Does ffmpeg support Linux and if so does it support such a conversion
> method?

Yes and yes.