[Libav-user] avcodec_decode_video2

[wm4]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 10:50:29 -0400
"Peter Stevens" <pstevens at evertz.com> wrote:

> When video is decoded using avcodec_decode_video2 is there an
> intermediate/internal pixel format that is converted to by default? or
> is it kept in the original source pixel format? I ask as I need

Normally, the decoder outputs the format that's most convenient and
fastest to output. Maybe some fringe codecs are handled less
efficiently, though.

> transcode to one raw format as fast as possible and the overhead of
> sws_scale is becoming a problem.

Depending in what the source/target formats are, and if you don't need
scaling, writing your own conversion routines instead of using
libswscale might be faster. libswscale's architecture can make some
conversions pretty slow.