[Libav-user] How to convert "-q:v 1" to API form

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Arthur Muller <muller at ...> writes:

> I guess I'm going to have to use sws_scale to let ffmpeg 
> do this transformation.

Good that you managed to do this!

> The funny thing is that if I dump my converted yuv images 
> to a file, or use ffmpeg to generate a .yuv file rather
> than an mp4, the resulting files are exactly the same 
> size; but my image is properly displayed with a yuv 
> player but the ffmpeg file is not.

How can I reproduce this?
What ffmpeg command produces a file that cannot be read?

Carl Eugen