I have a raw video file (testvideo_1000f.raw) that I am trying to stream in gray scale using ffmpeg and output the grayscale video to output.swf. The command I am using to do this is:
ffmpeg/ffmpeg -qmin 2 -qmax 31 -s 320x240 -f rawvideo -flags gray -pix_fmt:output gray -an -i testvideo_1000f.raw output.swf
However, the result from this command is a video stream that is in gray scale but still contains some of the chrominance data. The output from this command is pasted below:
3 [volta]/home/student/elliott> ffmpeg/ffmpeg -qmin 2 -qmax 31 -s 320x240 -f rawvideo -flags gray -pix_fmt:output gray -an -i testvideo_1000f.raw output.swf
ffmpeg version N-41632-g2b1fc56 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jul 29 2012 10:27:26 with gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-51)
configuration:
libavutil 51. 58.100 / 51. 58.100
libavcodec 54. 25.100 / 54. 25.100
libavformat 54. 6.101 / 54. 6.101
libavdevice 54. 0.100 / 54. 0.100
libavfilter 2. 80.100 / 2. 80.100
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 15.100 / 0. 15.100
*** CHOOSING 8
[rawvideo @ 0xdda9660] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, rawvideo, from 'testvideo_1000f.raw':
Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo (Y800 / 0x30303859), gray, 320x240, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
File 'output.swf' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
w:320 h:240 pixfmt:gray tb:1/25 fr:25/1 sar:0/1 sws_param:flags=2
[ffmpeg_buffersink @ 0xddb7b40] No opaque field provided
[format @ 0xddb7d40] auto-inserting filter 'auto-inserted scaler 0' between the filter 'Parsed_null_0' and the filter 'format'
[auto-inserted scaler 0 @ 0xddb7920] w:320 h:240 fmt:gray sar:0/1 -> w:320 h:240 fmt:yuv420p sar:0/1 flags:0x4
*** CHOOSING 8
Output #0, swf, to 'output.swf':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf54.6.101
Stream #0:0: Video: flv1, yuv420p, 320x240, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 25 tbc
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (rawvideo -> flv)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Truncating packet of size 76800 to 1 2875kB time=00:00:40.84 bitrate= 576.7kbits/s
frame= 1500 fps=1035 q=24.8 Lsize= 4194kB time=00:01:00.00 bitrate= 572.6kbits/s
video:4166kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.669245%
I am fairly new to FFMPEG and I am afraid I am using either the wrong syntax or the wrong parameters in my command line. For some reason, the format of the output is yuv420p. I have tried searching for this answer all over but have had no luck. Could anyone please help me and tell me why the output is being formatted in yuv420p when I am giving the command for it to be in 8bit grayscale? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Marc Elliott