[FFmpeg-user] grayscale video streaming in ffmpeg

[Roger Pack]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Marc Elliott <elliott2w1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, I get what you're saying.  I don't have to use .swf.  I can use
> any type of video output.  How do you take advantaget of the -pix_fmt
> flag in ffmpeg in order to specify the pixel formats GRAY8, GRAY16LE,
> and GRAY16BE?  There has to be someway to implement these commands,
> right?

Maybe convert it to "gray" then to yuv444p or whatever works well there.

  -vf format=gray,format=yuv422p