[FFmpeg-user] Grayscale x264 convertion

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> > If you want to force a colour video to become greyscale, I don't know
> > how you would do that using ffmpeg.
> 
> Maybe convert it to "gray" then to yuv444p or whatever works well there.
> 
>  -vf format=gray,format=yuv422p

Isn't gray alone sufficient? (Without the second format filter.)

Carl Eugen