YUV viewer

[ranchu]

Hello,

Is there anyone here experienced with YUV format ?
I tried to view the samples in
https://media.xiph.org/video/derf/
with yuv player (http://sourceforge.net/projects/raw-yuvplayer/)
but I get that the view is not clean (vertical line movement)
for example I've tried to view carphone_qcif but it does not work correctly.
I also tried 7yuv, elecard viewer.
Only with vlc is it OK........ I don't know why.

Regards,
Ran

[poisondeathray]

Because it's "y4m" not raw yuv . Y4M has headers

You usually have to specify the pixel format , planar arrangement, dimensions correct for raw yuv viewers. If you specify the wrong value, you will get a garbage image

[ranchu]

Right!
Thank you so much.

[ranchu]

Hi,

One more on this issue if I may.
I am trying to convert yuv format to nv12 and to play it
I used carphone qcif sample yuv format (yuv420):
http://trace.eas.asu.edu/yuv/
The original sampled is played OK with yuv player.
But on trying to play the converted sample
ffmpeg -pix_fmt yuv420p -s 176x144 -i carphone_qcif.yuv -pix_fmt nv12 carphone_qcif_nv12.yuv
the result seems wrong with any yuv player I've used (i remembered to change the setting for qcif 176x144, and NV12 but it did not help).
Is there something wrong with ffmpeg convert ?

Thanks,
Ran

[jagabo]

You can use RawSource() in AviSynth to read several different YUV formats. For example, this file:

http://trace.eas.asu.edu/yuv/akiyo/akiyo_cif.7z

after extracting the YUV file can be opened with:

RawSource("akiyo_cif.yuv", width=352, height=288, pixel_type="I420")

The carphone sample can be opened with:

RawSource("carphone_qcif.yuv", width=176, height=144, pixel_type="I420")

[ranchu]

Hi jagabo,

I am more intereted in a tool for converting the file to NV12.
I don't know why it does not work with ffmpeg.

Regards,
Ran

[poisondeathray]

It crashes ffmpeg for me, not sure why - nv12 is listed on the supported -pix_fmts for IO

You might be able to do it through a directshow chain. If you disable all the output pixel formats, except nv12 , in LAV video decoder configuration and use a raw dump that might work but I haven't tested it

[poisondeathray]

It works ok on akiyo cif (doesn't crash) . Not sure why carphone crashes, maybe the resolution

For example, ffplay can play it

ffmpeg -i akiyo_cif.y4m -s:v 352x288 -c:v rawvideo -pix_fmt nv12 -an nv12.yuv

ffplay -i nv12.yuv -pix_fmt nv12 -s:v 352x288

[jagabo]

Oops, sorry, made a mistake. Suggestion withdrawn.

[poisondeathray]

But the "nv12.yuv" produced above by ffmpeg doesn't display correctly with rawsource in avisynth using "nv12" - so I don't know how valid it is, or if it is a problem with rawsource.dll .



(Other variants like IYUV etc... display correctly in rawsource, and "NV12" is listed as supported in the documentation)

Supported pixel_types are:
RGB, RGBA, BGR, BGRA, ARGB, ABGR (interleaved RGB without subsampling, resulting in AviSynth's RGB24 or RGB32)
YUY2(YUYV), YVYU, UYVY, VYUY (interleaved horizontally subsampled resulting in AviSynth's YUY2)
I444, YV24 (planar without subsampling, resulting in AviSynth's YV24)
I422, YV16 (planar horizontally subsampled, it is converted to AviSynth's YV16)
I420(IYUV), YV12 (planar horizontally and vertically subsampled resulting in AviSynth's YV12)
I411(Y41B), YV411 (planar horizontally subsampled, it is converted to AviSynth's YV411)
NV12, NV21 (planar horizontally and vertically subsampled resulting in AviSynth's YV12)
Y8(aka GRAY) (luma only resulting in AviSynth's Y8)

[poisondeathray]

But yuvplayer 2.3 from sourceforge displays it correctly when nv12 is selected, so maybe it is a problem with rawsource.dll
http://sourceforge.net/projects/raw-yuvplayer/

[ranchu]

Hi,

I probably have some ffmpeg issue ? I tried it again as following but I can't play it with yuvplayer.
Maybe my ffmpeg version is too old and have some isse ?


ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:/media/sf_shared$ ffmpeg -i akiyo_cif.y4m -s 352x288 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt nv12 -an nv12.yuv

FFmpeg version SVN-r0.5.9-4:0.5.9-0ubuntu0.10.04.3, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --extra-version=4:0.5.9-0ubuntu0.10.04.3 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-shared --disable-static
libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
libavcodec 52.20. 1 / 52.20. 1
libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Jan 24 2013 19:42:59, gcc: 4.4.3
Input #0, yuv4mpegpipe, from 'akiyo_cif.y4m':
Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, yuv420p, 352x288, PAR 128:117 DAR 1408:1053, 29.97 tbr, 29.97 tbn, 29.97 tbc
File 'nv12.yuv' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
Output #0, rawvideo, to 'nv12.yuv':
Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, nv12, 352x288 [PAR 128:117 DAR 1408:1053], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 29.97 tbc
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame= 300 fps=278 q=0.0 Lsize= 59400kB time=10.01 bitrate=48611.9kbits/s
video:59400kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000%
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:/media/sf_shared$

[poisondeathray]

built on Jan 24 2013 19:42:59

Maybe it's too old ?

check ffmpeg -pix_fmts if nv12 is included as I/O option in your build

can your ffplay play nv12.yuv correctly ?

[ranchu]

Hi,

I've did the conversion with 7yuv, it works perfectly.
Probably the old ffmpeg version in my old ubuntu (10.04) has some bug with nv12.

Thanks,
Ran