[FFmpeg-user] Yes or No? About the processing pipeline.

[Mark Filipak]

On 17/06/2025 12.50, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM Mark Filipak <
> markfilipak.imdb-at-gmail.com at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> 
>> Yes (true) or No (false)?
>>
>> If the input is 8-bit ybr420-smpte170m, then the processing pipeline is
>> also 8-bit ybr420-smpte170m.
> 
> There is no such thing like ybr420.

That was not a 'Yes' or 'No' response. (I shortened YCbCr 4:2:0 to ybr420.)

>> If the input is 8-bit rgb420, then the processing pipeline is also 8-bit
>> rgb420.
> 
> There is no such thing like rgb420.

That was not a 'Yes' or 'No' response. (I shortened RGB 4:2:0 to rgb420.)

>> It would make sense to automatically decode to 16-bit rgb444.
> 
> For you.

That was not a 'Yes' or 'No' response.