[FFmpeg-user] rgb8

[Michael Koch]

Am 31.05.2023 um 08:56 schrieb Paul B Mahol:
> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 8:28 AM Michael Koch <astroelectronic at t-online.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Am 31.05.2023 um 08:15 schrieb Kieran O Leary:
>>> On Wed 31 May 2023 at 06:18, Michael Koch <astroelectronic at t-online.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 30.05.2023 um 22:53 schrieb Paul B Mahol:
>>>>> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 8:32 PM Michael Koch <
>>>> astroelectronic at t-online.de>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 30.05.2023 um 20:28 schrieb Reindl Harald:
>>>>>>> Am 30.05.23 um 20:21 schrieb Michael Koch:
>>>>>>>> ffmpeg -f dshow -video_size 1280x800 -framerate 5 -pixel_format rgb8
>>>>>>>> -i video="ASI178MM Camera (ZWO Design)" -f rawvideo -frames 1 -y
>>>>>>>> test.raw
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Then I did read this file, assuming that the pixel format is gray:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ffmpeg -s 1280x800 -pixel_format gray -f rawvideo -i test.raw -y
>>>>>>>> gray.png
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The result looks correct. Is it possible to do this in one command
>>>>>>>> line? I mean just tell FFmpeg that the pixel format isn't rgb8 but
>>>>>>>> gray, without making any modifications to the data?
>>>>>>> parameters before the input file are *input params*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> so why don't you change "-pixel_format rgb8" to "-pixel_format gray"
>>>>>>> in the first command line when you say it works in the second one?
>>>>>> When reading from the camera, the pixel format must be rgb8 because
>> this
>>>>>> is the only format supported by the DirectShow driver. All other pixel
>>>>>> formats give error message.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, looks like buggy code, the rgb8 is actually gray and not color.
>>>> Is it possible to get correct gray data from the buggy driver in one
>>>> FFmpeg command line? I mean the data can only be read from the driver as
>>>> rgb8. Is it possible to tell FFmpeg that it's actually gray? It works as
>>>> a two-step process with an intermediate raw file, but I'd like to do the
>>>> same thing in one command line in realtime.
>>>
>>> I’m not as familiar with this kind of usage but does adding “-pix_fmt
>> gray
>>> “ as an output option not work for you?
>> Then FFmpeg does convert from rgb8 to gray, which gives wrong noisy
>> output. Because the data is already gray. It's only incorrectly labeled
>> as rgb8.
>>
>>
> Once I push extractplanes commit you will be able to extract r/g/b
> component from rgb8.
> And after that is just matter of using mergeplanes and geq filters.

Couldn't this be simplified with a new filter "set_pixel_format" which 
tells FFmpeg to interpret the data as a different pixel format, without 
making any modifications to the data?
In my case the data is already correct. It's only labeled incorrectly.

Michael