[MPlayer-users] How to force a special color space converter during encoding

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

RC <cooleyr <at> gmail.com> writes:

> There is a 4:2:2 variation of MPEG-2 which has twice the chroma...

And is supported by MPlayer/FFmpeg.

> H.264 has a
> "High" 4:4:4 profile (as does MPEG-2 actually), which would give you
> what you want, but unlike the rest, I have no idea if MPlayer will even
> play it, let alone other commonly available decoders.

At least x264 can't encode in 4:4:4 and MPlayer/FFmpeg cannot play it back.

Carl Eugen