[MPlayer-dev-eng] Mencoder tvinput swaps Red and Blue

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:37:58PM +0200, wander wrote:
> On 16 Jul 2002, Julian J.M. wrote:
> 
> > El mar, 16-07-2002 a las 14:10, wander escribió:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > First of all i'd like to thank you all for MPlayer, its great!
> > >
> > > But I have allso found a bug in mencoder, it swaps Red and Blue when i
> > > capture from my TV card. Example images are avaiable on request.
> > >
> > > Video driver: NVidia 1.0.2802 for the geforce and X built-in driver for
> > > the S3 virge
> >
> > I asked this time ago, I was told it was nvidia's fault. I now have an
> > ATI Radeon 8500, with the GATOS driver, and I keep getting swaped
> > red-blue images. I'm using latest cvs, so it may be that it's again a
> > driver problem :)
> >
> > You can use:   -tv on:driver=v4l:......:outfmt=yuy2
> >
> 
> Hey, it works! thanks a lot :)
> 
> Maybe this should be in a FAQ/manual somewhere?

Using outfmt=i420 should also work, and it'll help performance a lot
if you want to encode from the tv card with mencoder.

Rich