[FFmpeg-devel] [Bulk] Re: SMPTE RP219-2002 color bar test signal

Tim Nicholson nichot20 at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 3 13:01:36 CEST 2012


On 24/08/12 15:38, Tim Nicholson wrote:
> On 24/08/12 15:15, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>> On date Friday 2012-08-24 12:21:26 +0100, Tim Nicholson encoded:
>>> Prior to any work on implementing the above as a lavfi source, I have
>>> uploaded to uploads.ffmpeg.org/incoming a single frame .mov in
>>> uncompressed uyvy format.
>>>
>>> This file was generated in the yuv domain using the SMPTE values which
>>> are to ITU 709/SMPTE 274M y, cb, cr values.
>>>
>>
>>> I hope this might find its way into http://samples.ffmpeg.org/ as a
>>> useful test source.
>>
>> How is that different from the output generated by smptebars?
>>
> 
> The lavfi smptebars generates SD standard bars in rgb colourspace with
> the -I/Q patches tweaked to be RGB legal. If used to generate files in
> yuv colourspace by default ffmpeg will apply ITU-601 matrix conversion
> which is also to the SD standard.
> 
> The above .mov is a version of the HD standard of the smpte bars using
> the HD yuv matrix values (ITU-R709//SMPTE 274M).
> 
> As this version now has -I/Q patches that are RGB safe it would be
> possible to generate this as a lavfi source. However since the bars are
> HD frame size any conversion to yuv should use the 709 matrix values, so
> I am wondering how best to proceed with this.
> 

Anyone consider this worth bumping into http://samples.ffmpeg.org ?

-- 
Tim




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