I have two videos (call them a.mov and b.mov) with the same width, height, pixel format, etc.
ffprobe reports them as having 'yuv420p10le' pixel format. If I do a trivial conversion: ffmpeg -i a.mov out.mov ffprobe reports out.mov as still being yuv420p10le. But if I create a trivial filter: ffmpeg -i a.mov -i b.mov -filter_complex '[0:v][1:v]overlay' out.mov ffprobe now reports out.mov being yuv420p. Is this an implicit conversion to a lower bit depth? I can get out.mov to stay at 10-bit color with: ffmpeg -i a.mov -i b.mov -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -filter_complex '[0:v][1:v]overlay' out.mov But I wonder if it's being downsampled and then upsampled, resulting in a loss of quality. I tried "-pix_fmt +", and it gave an error: The filters 'graph 0 input from stream 0:0' and 'Parsed_overlay_0' do not have a common format and automatic conversion is disabled. Error reinitializing filters! Failed to inject frame into filter network: Invalid argument Error while processing the decoded data for stream #1:0 Does this mean my downsampling theory is correct? Everything should have a common format (the 2 input files, the output file, and hopefully the filter). Thanks! Tom _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".