To what range is the swscaler referring to?

[Michael Heuberger]

Summary of the bug:
When encoding the video, I always see this warning

[swscaler @ 0x2599be0] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly

I want this warning to disappear but how? I am already setting the recommended pixel format

{{
-pix_fmt yuv420p
}}

but the warning still shows up. I really do not understand to what range the swscaler is referring to. How can I fix this? Or is this a bug?

How to reproduce:

% ffmpeg -r 14.563322542394877 -f image2 -i /home/michael-heuberger/binarykitchen/code/videomail.io/var/local/tmp/clients/videomail.io/11e4-686f-55c3c770-9cab-b5660842b8b4/frames/%d.jpg -i /home/michael-heuberger/binarykitchen/code/videomail.io/var/local/tmp/clients/videomail.io/11e4-686f-55c3c770-9cab-b5660842b8b4/videomail_preview.wav -y -acodec libfdk_aac -ar 44100 -ac 1 -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -profile:v baseline -crf 24 -pix_fmt yuv420p -loglevel warning -movflags faststart /home/michael-heuberger/binarykitchen/code/videomail.io/var/local/tmp/clients/videomail.io/11e4-686f-55c3c770-9cab-b5660842b8b4/videomail_preview.mp4

$ ffmpeg   
ffmpeg version 2.4.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Oct 10 2014 15:15:58 with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
  configuration: --extra-libs=-ldl --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --enable-avresample --disable-debug --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab --enable-libpulse --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --disable-decoder=amrnb --disable-decoder=amrwb --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libvorbis --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libvpx --enable-libspeex --enable-libass --enable-avisynth --enable-libsoxr --enable-libxvid
  libavutil      54.  7.100 / 54.  7.100
  libavcodec     56.  1.100 / 56.  1.100
  libavformat    56.  4.101 / 56.  4.101
  libavdevice    56.  0.100 / 56.  0.100
  libavfilter     5.  1.100 /  5.  1.100
  libavresample   2.  1.  0 /  2.  1.  0
  libswscale      3.  0.100 /  3.  0.100
  libswresample   1.  1.100 /  1.  1.100
  libpostproc    53.  0.100 / 53.  0.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

You cannot make the warning disappear for ffmpeg depending on your input or output pix_fmt.

[Michael Heuberger]

Ok, how can I find out the pix_fmt?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

It would be part of the console output if you had provided it.

Please understand that this is a bug tracker, not a support forum. Please consider asking all questions concerning FFmpeg on the user mailing list.

[Michael Heuberger]

'-pix_fmt yuvj420p' did the trick for me

sorry about the question!

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Replying to michael.heuberger:

'-pix_fmt yuvj420p' did the trick for me

This unfortunately breaks your output file depending on the player you are using.
No warning is shown because you explicitly requested a possibly incompatible output pixel format.

[Michael Heuberger]

@cehoyos really? now i am confused. should i use yuvj420p or yuv420p? which one format is breaking which player?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

WMP only supports yuv420p.

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