On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:00 AM amin...@mailbox.org <amin...@mailbox.org>
wrote:

> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 3:09 PM Tom Murphy <amindfv@...> wrote:
> >
> > > > According to ffprobe, the input video has colorspace 'yuv420p10le'
> > > > (i.e. 10-bit video), but the output is only 'yuv420p'. So it does
> > > > appear somewhere in the pipeline it's being downgraded to 8-bit? (Or
> > > > that there's a default 8-bit output setting somewhere?)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Maybe I should have phrased this last bit more clearly as a question:
> > > does the fact it's input 10-bit and output 8-bit imply I _can't_
> > > currently get the data through the whole pipeline 10-bit
> > >
> >
> > Correct. Brian meant it should support it as an input and decode it
> > correctly, but it will be conformed to one of the image formats supported
> > by the services. The mlt_image_yuv422p16 he mentions only works for
> > decklink producer to avformat consumer currently. It also possible to
> > convert 10-bit YUV to 8-bit full range sRGB, which most effects support,
> > convert to 10-bit YUV, and encode as 10-bit. I think Brian was also
> talking
> > a bit technical about what can be possible with small changes if you are
> a
> > developer. Currently, the avformat producer (decoder) does not output to
> > mlt_image_yuv422p16, and I doubtful that is going to be the preferred
> image
> > format for a future processing pipeline that supports 10-bit end-to-end.
>
> Is my intuition correct that (e.g.) 10-bit yuv420 needs to be supported on
> a per-service basis?
>
> So if I have 10-bit color producers and no filters or transitions, then
> "all" I need is for the avformat consumer to support 10-bit color in order
> to prevent loss of image quality?
>
>
The consumer already supports mlt_image_yuv422p16 but not the avformat
producer.


> And then, if I have the same setup as above but I add one filter (or
> transition), then I just need that particular filter or transition to
> support 10-bit color?
>


That is correct, but beware of automatically-added normalization filters
that are added in src/modules/core/loader.ini for things such as scaling
and padding, etc.
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