Processing EBU's YUV files with FFmpeg

To process YUV files (i.e. raw video), you need to know:

• size (WxH)

• framerate

• YUV format (there are many, see ​http://www.fourcc.org)

We stumbled upon YUV8 and YUV10 files as provided by the EBU (​http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/hdtv/test_sequences.php). Every frame is a seperate file; fortunately, YUV files can be concatenated.

• YUV8 files have a byte format of "YUV422 = Cb0 Y0 Cr0 Y1 Cb1 Y2 Cr1 Y3" ("U Y V Y U Y V Y") and can be processed using

  ffmpeg -s 1920x1080 -r 50 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt uyvy422 -i input.yuv output.mp4
  
  

• YUV10 files cannot be processed by FFmpeg directly, because FFmpeg does not support 10 bits/pixel. One way to get around this is to convert it to YUV8. The following program takes YUV10 on stdin and provides YUV8 on stdout:

  #include <stdio.h>
  
  void main() {
  
    int a,b,c,d;
  
    unsigned int k,l,m;
  
    for(;;) {
  
       // read 32 bits
  
       a = getchar();
  
       if(a<0) return;
  
       b = getchar();
  
       c = getchar();
  
       d = getchar();
  
  
  
       // first 30 bits contain 3 x 10 bit values
  
       k = (a << 2) | (b >> 6);
  
       l = ((b & 0x3F) << 4) | (c >> 4);
  
       m = ((c & 0x0F) << 6) | (d >> 2);
  
  
  
       // crude downsample
  
       putchar(k >> 2);
  
       putchar(l >> 2);
  
       putchar(m >> 2);
  
    }
  
  }