[Libav-user] Encoding in PIX_FMT_YUYV422

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

 <francesco at ...> writes:

> >> locpFrame->data[0] => The buffer containing packetized samples,
> >> Y0,Cr0,Y1,Cb0,Y2,Cr1,Y3,Cb1....
> >
> >This is approximately PIX_FMT_YUYV422, but I suspect you have Cr and Cb
> swapped,
> >please see libavutil/pixfmt.h
> >(Or is the comment wrong there?)

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> why you state that this is "approximately" PIX_FMT_YUYV422 ?

What is unclear about "I suspect you have Cr and Cb swapped"?
(But as said, I don't know if the comment in pixfmt.h is correct.)

> I read libavutil/pixfmt.h but from this header and from  the source code
> example it's not clear to me how I should insert data.  I start from a raw
> image and would compress it in MPEG2 4:2:2 format.

As said, you cannot use PIX_FMT_YUYV422 because no encoder supports it.
The mpeg2 encoder does support PIX_FMT_YUV422P though.

Carl Eugen