convert H264 video to raw YUV format

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Necip Onur Uzun picture Necip Onur Uzun · Dec 16, 2013 · Viewed 67.2k times · Source

Is it possible to create a raw YUV video from H264 encoded video using ffmpeg? I want to open the video with matlab and access Luma, Cb and Cr components frame by frame.

Answer

alexbuisson picture alexbuisson · Dec 16, 2013

Yes you can, you just have to specific the pixel format. To get the whole list of the format:

ffmpeg -pix_fmts | grep -i pixel_format_name

For example if you want to save the 1st video track of an mp4 file as a yuv420p (p means planar) file:

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -c:v rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p out.yuv

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