Hi,

On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 2:52 PM Guangyu Sun <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When encoding VP9 with a YUV pixel format (e.g. yuv420p) and
> AVCOL_SPC_RGB colorspace metadata, libvpxenc unconditionally set
> VPX_CS_SRGB. This produced a spec-violating bitstream: Profile 0
> (4:2:0) with sRGB colorspace, which is only valid for Profile 1/3
> (4:4:4). The resulting file is undecodable.
>
> Fix this by setting ctx->vpx_cs to VPX_CS_SRGB in set_pix_fmt()
> for 4:4:4 YUV formats when AVCOL_SPC_RGB is set, matching the
> existing GBRP path. This covers the legitimate case of RGB data in
> YUV444 containers (e.g. H.264 High 4:4:4 with identity matrix).
>
> With this change, any AVCOL_SPC_RGB that reaches the switch in
> set_colorspace() is guaranteed to be a subsampled format where
> sRGB is invalid. Return an error so the user can fix their
> pipeline rather than silently producing incorrect output.
>
> To reproduce:
>
>   ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc=s=64x64:d=1:r=1 \
>     -c:v libvpx-vp9 -pix_fmt yuv420p -colorspace rgb bad.webm
>   ffprobe bad.webm
>   # -> "vp9 (Profile 0), none(pc, gbr/...), 64x64"
>   ffmpeg -i bad.webm -f null -
>   # -> 0 frames decoded, error
>
> Signed-off-by: Guangyu Sun <[email protected]>
> ---
> v2:
>   - Only fall back to BT.709 if the pixel format is not 4:4:4,
>     addressing feedback regarding Profile 1/3 support.
> v3:
>   - Hard error via AVERROR(EINVAL) - set_colorspace() now returns
>     int, and the call site in vpx_init() propagates the error
> v4:
>   - Rebased on master, no changes. cc maintainer
>  libavcodec/libvpxenc.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>

LGTM. I'll merge this soon (with a minor version update and a
reference to the bug I filed for libvpx) if there are no comments.
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