[MEncoder-users] How to convert from uncompressed yuv420 video to rgb 24?

[The Wanderer]

gerlos wrote:

> Hello everyone!
> I captured  many uncompressed videos (tens of GBs) from my webcam for
> astronomical processing.
> 
> The format is YUV420, but my processing software doesn't understand
> this format, and need rgb24, so I need a way (possibly an automatic
> way) to convert all these files.
> 
> Reading the documentation it seems to me that it's possible with
> mencoder, but so far I couldn't find how... any clue?

I've never had occasion to do this myself, but from searching the man
page for 'colorspace', I think that '-vf scale' (and possibly '-vf
format') might be what you want.

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