[FFmpeg-user] intel hd4000 h264 encoding with vaapi for quicktime - yuv420p possible?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Am Do., 27. Feb. 2020 um 16:08 Uhr schrieb Kevin Smallman
<pipeline79 at gmail.com>:

> I can encode them successfully on my linux laptop with libx264 cpu
> encoding and -pix_fmt yuv420p option.  The cpu is ivybridge, so the
> gpu can do h264 encode and decode which plays fine in vlc on linux,
> but not in quicktime on the old imac.

The reason is possibly that you have to avoid cabac etc., try
with -profile baseline (which does not force the baseline profile that
no decoder supports but the required constrained baseline profile).

> My question is:  is there a set of options so that the hardware
> accelerated ffmpeg encoding/decoding/both can output a mp4 file with
> yuv420p pixel format that is compatible with the quicktime standards?
>
> So far, I haven't been able to find one from here:
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/VAAPI
>
> To get hardware encoding to work I seem to need to use this option
> with the h264_vaapi encoder:
> -vf 'hwupload,format=nv12'

Unrelated to your quicktime issue:
The result of this encode will be a file with yuv420p (there is no
semantic difference between nv12 and yuv420p).

Carl Eugen