[Libav-user] sws_scale has weird behavior when not resizing

[Alex Cohn]

On Jul 12, 2012 6:30 PM, "Alexandre Millette" <amillett at matrox.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all.
>
> I'm working on a C++ video player using libav.
> Upon testing with various video formats and files, I've encountered a
problem with a small MPEG4/mp4v file (190x240).
> The issue is that a small green band (6 px in width) will appear on the
right side of the frames.
>
> This is what I've gathered so far:
> - The YUV420 frame read in the stream is ok.
> - The RGB32 frame output by sws_scale (there is no resize, the function
is used only for conversion purpose) has the green band, so the problem
comes from sws_scale.
> - The green color comes from the original allocation of the YUV frame
(data to 0 equals to a green shade).
> - If sws_scale is used also as a resizing device (say converting YUV420
190x240 to RGB32 191x240), there is no colored band, but the frame is of
course 1 pixel wider than intended (frame accuracy is an important feature
of the project, so this is not acceptable).

I believe your problem could be rooted in bicubic transform. It makes n9
sense when source and target sizes are the same. Try to set linear.

> img_convert_ctx = sws_getContext(w, h, PIX_FMT_YUV420P,
>   w, h, PIX_FMT_RGB32, SWS_BICUBIC, NULL, NULL, NULL);
>
> Thank you,
> Alex M

I hope this helps.
Alex
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