[FFmpeg-user] Setting colour range.

[Kieran O Leary]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2018, 15:21 Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com wrote:

> On 11/27/18, Kieran O'Leary <kieran.oleary at irishfilm.ie> wrote:
> > When creating MOV files, setting the -color_range option does not seem to
> > have any effect. What am I doing wrong? Could it have anything to do with
> > the removal of the yuvj pixel formats?
> > Is setting this metadata even possible in the MOV container, or is it
> > something that is expected to be flagged at the stream level? I was
> having
> > difficulty finding info on where this info is even located in a file in
> > both:
> > https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2162/_index.html
> and
> >
> https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/QuickTime/QTFF/QTFFPreface/qtffPreface.html
> >
> > Worrying, if I set a value of jpeg, mpeg, or 0, ffprobe says that the
> file
> > has TV range.
> >
> > How to replicate:
> >
> > $ ./ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc  -color_range jpeg -c:v prores -t 1
> > prores_jpeg.mov
>
> That encoder incorrectly never changes color range.
>

Can this metadata ever be set at a container level for mov? Must it always
be the stream that holds this info?