[FFmpeg-user] Recoding H.264/4.2.2 to H.264/4.2.0

[Mike Brown]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 03:00:12PM +0100, Andy Furniss wrote:
> Mike Brown wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 12:03:33PM +0200, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 21:54:41 -0500, Mike Brown wrote:
>>>> If given an H.264/4.2.2 elementary stream, can ffmpeg recode it to
>>>> H.264/4.2.0.  If so, what would the command line be?
>>>
>>> $ ffmpeg -i myelementarystream_422.h264 -c:v libx264 [ other x264/encoding options ] -pix_fmt yuv420p outfile.h264
>>
>> Thanks, I appreciate the response.
>
> OK as long as it's progressive, interlaced would need different, maybe 
> (untested/from memory)
>
> -vf scale=interl=1,format=yuv240p
>
> plus specific interlace encode options to libx264.

It is interlaced and I need to keep it that way (2:3 pulldown video).

Is there a list of all the libx264 options online?

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