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Choose a pixel format for a clip with the FFmpeg format filter and check it with ffprobe
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What this guide covers
For editors and encoders whose player or encoder rejects a clip's current pixel format. You end up with a clip steered to a format you pick and a way to read the result back. Based on the FFmpeg manuals only; no command was run, and colour conversion is not covered.
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Guide title
Choose a pixel format for a clip with the FFmpeg format filter and check it with ffprobe
Coverage
For editors and encoders whose player or encoder rejects a clip's current pixel format. You end up with a clip steered to a format you pick and a way to read the result back. Based on the FFmpeg manuals only; no command was run, and colour conversion is not covered.
Example
A hypothetical example that was not run: a 10-bit screen recording which the target player rejects is probed, then converted to a common 8-bit format, then probed once more so the two can be compared.
Useful starting points
- A matching pixel format in the probe output does not prove colours are unchanged; compare a few frames of source and output by eye.
- If you offer several formats, the filter graph may pick any one of them; give a single format when you need exactly that one.
- A probe field that reads unknown or is missing means the file carries no tag, so that check could not confirm anything.
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